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Show A Trouhloflome Worm. It was funny to start with, but twice as funny when the great mystery was unraveled. At ono of tho Lewiston school buildings tho janitor, who is .j painstaking nnd careful, had been uc- cused of negligence in sweeping- tho floor, i llo denied the charge, and said he swept the floors regularly and carefully, but that no matter how well he did it, the next lnorniu.r tho floor was covered with dirt and tho ivytilt of his sweeping went for nothing. Ho couldn't understand it. Only one solution, ghosts and he didn't believe in ghosts. ' ' Duo investigation of liiB sweeping was made by the authorities, and they found ! that tho sweeping was well done. The next thing was to investigate tho floor, and hero thoy found the solution. On lifting somo of tho planks, thoy found tho under flooring full of borors, the meanest kind of a worm, ono that works out in the night and drags its dusty self nil over things in general, stirring up the dirt in the cracks so that the first footsteps foot-steps of the morning will sond tho dirt all over t he floor. This was the solution of tho mystery nnd the death of the borer. Lovvistou Journal. |