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Show ! Ducks In a Cyclone Fit. ! Capt. Ingraham is a well known citizen citi-zen of a thriving little town on the I Huntsvillo branch of the Birmingham ; Mineral. Conductor Smith, of the Vil-; Vil-; lage Springs accommodation, tells the following story on the captain: The captain has a deep cyclone pit as a place of refuge in time of dangerous storms. The pit has a trap door which opens when touched and closes itself Some time ago the captain purchased, seven ducks and two chickens und placed lliem in his yard. The next day they were nowhere to be found. A careful search for the missing fowls failed to give any clew to their whereabouts, und, thinking they had been stolen, nothing more was thought about the matter. Just nineteen days after the fowls disappeared dis-appeared the captain had occasion to open his cyclone pit. The first thing that met his gaze were the Beven ducks and two hens. They had stepped on the trap door and had been dumped into the pit, the door closing behind them. The wonderful fact of it is that though they had been in the pit nineteen days without food or water they were alive. After the fowls were removed from tlie pit it was noticed that they walked very awkwardly A careful examination revealed re-vealed the fad that they were all us blind as bats. Birmingham (Ala.) News |