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Show WHAT HAPPENED TO MIGGINS. To the Editor: Sir: The explosion of one of Mr. Simpson's hogs, recorded last week in The Intermountain Catholic, is an unusual but not an exceptional occurrence. oc-currence. A stranger accident happened here a few weeks ago, when Nicodemus, a duck which had taken prizes at poultry shows and fall fairs, exploded ex-ploded into several hundred pieces, one of which struck Erastus Miggins in the eye, destroying the sight. The cause of the explosion was some yeast which Mrs. Miggins left on the back porch, and which Nicodemus, on his way to a neighboring pond, stopped to examine. The duck was pleased with the sample, his first beak full, and devoured all the rest. Mr. Miggins, coming in for his dinner, discovered discov-ered his prize duck unreasonably swollen and inflated, in-flated, and in a somewhat lofty condition. He stooped to pick up Nicodemus, who was floundering flounder-ing on the porch, when the duck exploded with a leud report, startling the family in the house. Mr. Miggins ran into the kitchen, holding both hands over his right eye. A doctor was called, who found that the eyeball had been penetrated by a fragment of the duck's gizzard, and gave no hope of saving the optic Mr. Miggin3 prized his duck and mourns hi3 untimely taking off, but he deplores de-plores the loss of his eyesight more. He advises that if ducks and yeast are kept on the same premises prem-ises one of them should be under lock and key. Yours, etc., SILAS OLLIE. Garden City, Utah. |