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Show A day or two since, a two-year-old child of Lester Sheldon, of Sturbridge, Mass., while playing with a spool two or three inces long, holding it in her mouth, fell from the door-way, the fall forcing the spool down her throat far enough to bring the head below the tonsils and roots of the tongue, and so completely wedging it into the mouth as to render it impossible to withdraw it direct without danger of taking the tongue with it. Fortunately the hole in ;Ue spool was large enough for the child to breathe through until the arrival ar-rival of a doctor, who, by splitting the spool, was able to take it out in pieces, thus saving the little one's life. Ex. |