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Show PINE MARTENS MADE MYSTERY. Cause of Consternation in English Country Neighborhood. A series of grew some Incidents hail terrified an Kngllsh neighborhood. What made these Incidents peculiarly horrlblo wns their trnglc ni)stery. No body could explain them. Sheep and lambs, which weie In full health overnight, over-night, were found dead In the morning, morn-ing, their bodies uninjured, but drained of every drop of blood. Rhouls and vampires and nil Imaginable Imagin-able horrors were blamed, unit the whole countr)slilo was up The damage dam-age continued, and In a single night a fanner had fourteen out of twenty one lambs killed, and the same pen was chosen tho next nlgiit and the retraining beven lambs weie do-stroved. do-stroved. In the enrl) pep of day the slaers were discovered, all hideous fiom their sanguinary work. They were neither men nor inon-i.teis, inon-i.teis, but a couple of pine mat tons, which, having touted n pair of mng-pies mng-pies from their nest, had there made their home, and tlfom e nlghtl) scouied the coiintr) tound about. |