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Show A Horse Swallows a Ball of Twine, A horse in a small town near Norwich, Conn., which Is disposed to swallow anything any-thing that comes within Its reach, recently re-cently bolted a large ball of wrapping twino. The ball rolled in easily, but a knob at the end of the cord anchored itself windward between the animal's front teeth, and the knot and the visible piece of twine served as a key to the Bituation when the young groomswoman visited thostableand inspected her steed. There was a somewhat troubled look on the horse's faco as he stood with feet braeed, ears lopped, mouth open, and in his eyes was a mute appeal that betokened be-tokened a growing suspicion that probably prob-ably the case was hopeless. The young lady unloosed the knot, wound six Inches of the cord around her hand and began to unravel tho mystery. The horse kept his mouth open, looked wise, and seemed perfectly to understand what was going on, and out, yard after yard, fathom by fathom, the animal compliantly yielded up his peculiar dinner, and on neither side of the manger was a comment uttered, ut-tered, except that now and then the grateful beast emitted a sigh as he ob- I served the external ball swelling In magnitude mag-nitude and felt the internal one steadily diminishing. Finally the last yard of cord was reeled out of the horse, wound up and the ball taken into the house, j where the animal couldD't getat it again. I Lowell News. |