Show in the tap root of an a oak I 1 remember a canons curious incident con necked with the tap root of an oak this oak a good tree of perhaps years growth was being felled felted at Braden bradenham hant wood when the woodmen goodmen celled called attention to something on the tap root on clearing this of soil we found that the object was a horse shoe of ancient make obviously in the beginning an acorn must have fall en into the hollow of this cast shoe and as it grew through the slow genera eions the root filled up the circle car crying it down into the earth in process of its increase till at length found wood and iron thu thus strangely wedded that taproot tap root with the shoe about it is now or used to be a paper weight in the vestibule of bradenham hall rider haggard in longman m Wa Af agazine gazina |