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Show JMMALTUlfiEDIK. AiionsEUMa'i" v cnnniTinit- TKE 1IV.8 VmiOtTroOD. List autumn, while a Maine man .was waaderluj; In lite woeI, ho came uion the iceno of a peculiar tragedy. He raw a cow, apparently alire, itandlos beside a tree. He watched herat Intervals for an hour or more, and wondered that the re-malued re-malued motloulcas to lonp. Something Some-thing eultar In her poi,Jon arociI hla cutlotlly, and Le went The cow was dead, her laad and neck Hedged Into tho irotiii of a tuw apjilotrvt. The.ioer iimturr had probably been leochlngthrough the lltuUittarapjilrf. and tomchuvt gotfattlnthecrulcli. TLohalraud even the ttlu welt, worn lrora her neck, (bowing hw sho had itrug-Sled itrug-Sled for frceuota and cC3)o from tlv w starvation. The apple tree wan In an I-oUtttl rusi'iou, and thn joor cox had not been dbeoTertd iu time toanvelirr life. A v luabre bte of Troup count , Gtorgto, waIosta liort time ko. LiIHerut earcli was made In vain, athl hta owner bad about concluded that tho Ihhw had U-en btoltn. Thirteen days aftir ho was flret mbsed a regro boy found the hone In the I e-t of a creek. The anlmnl waa Etar.diuiC Iu the water, unable tocrcaiio because of tbe high bants of the stream, and the fAlls Iu the stream above and below him. The nesro boy iioke to the horre ami wtaansireted by a glad whinny. whin-ny. Thuladat once reported his dl-covery dl-covery Uitlieowiur.wi Himmoued Mjvcnl of hb neighbors and went to the hore' relief. Tho bank if Mie crcik liad to be dug down, ami while the mni worked the animal gaio whlnnlts of dtlishl fnnu tlar to time by woy of evincing hW satkfacUau that help wainthaiid. When the Incline w? coailkted the hone rulitd tip bi the ti Ji and Uien Jlnornil and Ml to the ground, but hescon revovitvdand prcreuded to his stable. He had lrein in the creek UiIiUi.il daya jltliout fowl, ixcept the little that he liad picked from the alnioet nakeil tank. The hair on his legs all dapiird off from the lone ex-urt, ex-urt, othtrwito he was toon as tound as ever. |