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Show POSITIVE PROOF Up In Bedford, where many Interesting Inter-esting tilings beside the Shawsheen river have their origin, there was an old man who believed the earth was flat, but couldn't convert his neighbors, (ter long cogitation, he devised a convincing test. In his dooryard was the stump of a tree that had been sawed off level. On the stump, one evening at sundown, sun-down, he placed a large squash. He went out in the morning and found the squash was still there. "And,' said he, triumphantly, "it the earth had really rolled over In the night, the squash would have tilted off the stump." Boston Globe. |