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Show FINDS LONG LOST PET TURTLE Farmer Had Carved Inscription on Its Shell In 1888 When He Was a Boy. Harrisburg, Pa. A farmer in southern south-ern - Pennsylvania, went swimming very frequently last summer in Green lake. On one occasion, one of his toes was suddenly caught and held with a vise-like grip. He sputtered and tried to get loose all the way to the shore, almost fainting with the exertion. His catch was a large snapping turtle tur-tle which had to be removed from his Finds His Pet Turtle. toe with a chisel and hammer. The following inscription was found carved On the shell: "H. T. 1888." "Why," gasped the astonished farmer, "I carved carv-ed that on a pet turtle when I was fifteen fif-teen years old, and I've been looking for him ever since. He found me first, however." |