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Show all jales As told to: J elmo FRANK E. cd SCOTT HAGAN WATSON The Flying Pond XT EAR Buffalo, N. Y., lives a J-1 farmer who once had a pond back of his barn but he doesn't I have It now. George H. Schicker tells the reason thus : One evening last winter the farmer farm-er saw a flock of wild geese settle down on his pond. He ran for his shotgun but before he arrived at the pond it was too dark to see the geese plainly enough to shoot one. So he decided to wait until morning morn-ing to try to bag a goose. That night there was a sudden drop in the temperature. In the cold frosty dawn the farmer hurried hur-ried out to the barn and peered around the corner. Sure enough, there were the geese sitting quietly out in the middle of the pond. He stepped out into the open and raised his weapon. Immediately the geese set up a terrific clamor. The next moment their threshing wings were carrying them high into the air and with them went the farmer's farm-er's pond frozen solidly to their legs. Citizens of northern New York now look forward with dread to the coming of every winter. They are afraid that a large flock of wild geese may some time alight on Lake Ontario, that a sudden change will freeze it to the legs of the big birds and that they will lose their lake Just as the farmer lost his pond. Western Newspaper Union. |