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Show A Child Asleep in a Tall Thee Top. A very remarkable escape oc-cuired oc-cuired yesterday to a little nephew of Edward E. Powers, boot and shoe dealer. The child, who is 5 years old. was missing at 12 o'clock, when looked for at dinner time, but, after calling him, the family ate dinner, and the child not aDpaariug, became alarmed and instituted in-stituted a search throughout the neighborhood. His hat was found in the yard, under some largo maple trees. Nothing could bo heard ol him until about 3 o'clock, when a girl discovered him up in one of the limbs of the maple trees, forty feet Irooi the ground, asleep, The girl called him, but he did not awake, and the situation being discovered, his aunt prevented any noise being made uutil two boys climbed the tree and awoke him, when he was got down safely. It cannot be ascertained how i long the child had been there, but a1 continuous search waa made from 1 o'cloek to 3 p.m. Detroit Post. |