Animals: Tall Tales

“Lou” Stone has been dead more than a year and from Winsted, Conn., which he made famed, go no more tales of hare-lipped cats which whistle “Yankee Doodle,” of mares which bore twin calves, of spinsters’ cows too decent to be milked by man. But elsewhere throughout the land, to newshawks lolling in their offices, hot summer afternoons still bring tall tales. Last week in the following places the following events were solemnly reported to the nation’s press:

¶In El Paso, Tex. Dewey Bluth’s Buff Orpington hen. having grown a comb and stopped laying eggs, hopped up on a fence each day at 4 a. m. and 4 p. m. to crow like any rooster.

¶ In Carson City, Nev. died Mrs. Al Flannery’s chick which had a third leg hanging from its tail, on which it leaned when tired.

¶In Watertown, Wis. it took three men three hours to pry loose Roy Sommerfield’s kitten which darted a paw into the jaws of a freshly decapitated turtle.

¶In Oshkosh, Wis. was born to Roy Trelevan’s cow a calf with two noses.

¶In Spokane, Wash, was born to Nels Nelson’s cow a calf with two heads.

¶In Chester, N. Y. was born to the Persian cat of Charley Eitel, who also has a pet male fox, a litter of four—two kittens, two fox pups.

¶ In Dayton, Wash, were born to Fred Gilbert’s goose four goslings, three of which had two sets of wings and the fourth four legs.