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Show Hid Four Days in Rats9 Den and to take him to New York for a course of treatment. He told me he went into the cellar to sleep, and when 1 asked him why he did not come out when he awoke, he just yawned and s&id he was too tired." Boy, Victim of Overstudy, Secretes Himself in Damp Cellar While Parents Search for Him. Stamford, Conn. With rats as large as the average sized cat scampering about him, Michael Florin, Jr., 14 years old, lay for four nights and four days in a dark, damp cellar at his home, East Meadow and Jefferson streets, here. The police had sent out a general alarm concerning the boy, his father had sought him in all the near-by cities, and every child in the neighborhood was engaged in the search. The boy's hiding place was about as repulsive a place as could be imagined. The floor was damp, and even in the daytime scarcely any light penetrated the place. By night the boy slept In an isolated coiner between beams in a bed of rags he made for himself. In fact, he spent most of the four days and four nights in this little hole. He had little food during the period, and that little came from an icebox in the front of the cellar. Often the rats stole this, but they never attacked the boy, and he apparently did not fear them. He was found by a younger brother leaning against "the icebox so weak from hunger that he could scarcely stand. He was put to bed and a physician was called. He did ot explain his strange prank. "My son is a victim of overstudy," said the father. "He is devoted to books and spends every minute he can get poring ever them. Six weeks ago he was ill, and I had a physician from New York. He said the boy's brain was affected from overstudy. He advised ad-vised me to keep him out of school |