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Show - An Imprisoned Fish. The writer of the following a correspondent corre-spondent of The Chattanooga News evidently wanted to fittingly wind up the fish story seasons My cousin owns a watormill, and in removing some obstructions ob-structions found an immense log imbedded im-bedded in the stream, which must have been submerged for a number of years. The log had to be cut in two to remove it; and much to our surprise we found it hollow, although it had every appearance appear-ance of being solid. One of the negroes while examining the log looked into the hollow, and thought he saw something moving. He began using his ax, and soon had the log cut in another place. ; Imagine our amazement .when we discovered dis-covered a live catfish of enormous size so completely wedged in the hollow as to bo unable to move, except to open its mouth and wiafele its tail. : The fish was very lively and apparently in the enjoyment enjoy-ment of excellent health. The question is how did the fish get into the log, as the only menus of ingress and egress we could discover was a small round hole, not more than two inches in diameter. We surmised that ho must have entered the little opening when no larger than a minnow, and grown great in his solitary confinement. |