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Show A Wonilerfnl i'ms Slnry. While a laivre pine loir was being sawed into lumber at I'.rown & Hall's sawmill near Acton, Out., after the outside Blab und ouo board had been cut off, and while the workmen wero turning over the pi'"paiatory to "sqiiarint;" it, tbf v v.'oi'e surprised to sco a lariii toad p ike hi-, ii-i i out of a hole, where he w as ini 'i ,ld-d. mid wlierehe had baruly c.-. a"ed beiiin cut up by the saw. How the creatine ever ot there 13 a mystery, lis be wis coin; letely eti'.'aseil in the wood, with no ponsible means ol inyreisor egress. As the loir was the fourth or fifth up from the butt of the tree, bis position must have been at least fifty or sixty feet from tho ground. There is but ono way of iiccounting for tiie fact that ho w. is found in tho position posi-tion named. He hadfrrown up with the tree from infancy, ami was probably hundreds of years old when the saw uwoke him from his loiifT 'nip. The animal was ipiito fat, nnd nearly us larjro across us a man's hand. The tree in which ho waa found whs perfectly perfect-ly sound, with tho exception of a decayed de-cayed spot about a foot in length lxdnw the hollow place in which ho was imbedded. im-bedded. St. Lotii.s Republic. |