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Show Like an Earthquake. Former High Sheriff Chesterfield C. Middlebrooks, whose bungalow at Highland lake stands partly over the lake on stone and cement foundations, was awakened at four o'clock the other morning by loud noises which he says shook his bungalow like an earth tremor. He says that after the household had been shaken out of a sound sleep, he, not waiting to dress, went outside to ascertain the cause of the noise. He found, he says, that a monster frog had its bed directly under the bungalow. The frog weighed fully six pounds, he says, and every time it croaked the bungalow cracked and shook. Mr. Middlebrooks bought an anchor, strong rope and enough red flannel to bait 100 hooks, and will try to save his property by capturing the bullfrog bull-frog Winsted (Conn.) dispatch to New York World. |