A QUEER FRIENDSHIP.
In some " nature notes " in the Welsh Gazette, published in a part of Britain that is a paradise for birds, an account is given of an astonishing friendship between a -blackbird and a rat. The bird is fed regularly at the kitchen window which he taps impatiently if the food is not already put out. The larger pieces of bread he always carried off in the same direction, and the kindly sleuths who fed him discovered that he delivered them to a young rat, who came expectantly to the mouth of his hole to await them. Unusual greed in a bird is often a sign of some curious association. Much the tamest robin of my acquaintance—she would take food from anyone's hand—was found to be feeding a young cuckoo, whose hunger drove the foster mother to seek food at all
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