Coalville Times | 1901-10-18 | Page 6 | Tortoises like Melons

TorloUes I.Ike Melons. If" 0. Carson, a farmer near Eufan, was on the streeta the other day and said: "I wish there waa market for tortolae. If there wua I would be la good shape lln.im inlly In a Utile while, 1 have a large patch of muskmclons and the vines have been loaded with the fruit, but as they got about ready for harvesting, something begun eating eat-ing them at nlKht. Several nights were siicnt In laying for the Intruders, snd Into one night there was a rattling of dry bones, or sounds that somewhat resembled that, and before taking a run for the house I took a farewell look and beheld a herd of tortoises all over the cantaloupe patch. I mule a dash among them and hurtled the hulls of some doteu, ruptured two snd have them captives." To make, lure that he was not mtstnken In the melon thieves, he now and then drops a muakmelon In the box where they are confined and he says they ruth' upon It and eat nearly as fast as a hog. OnWeston Dally News. i