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Show FIVE LEGGED CALF PUT ON EXHIBITION LAFREL. Mont.. Nov. 8. A fivc-legged fivc-legged calf, "Quint. ' as she Is appropriately appro-priately called, born January 3. lfC'2. on the L. R. I'h. nips iamb near Roundup. Mont. i attracting much attention at a Coney Island freak! animal show, in Coney Island, New York, to which concession she was recently sold bv her owner, Mr. Phillips. "Quint is peculiar in many ways." said Mr. Phillips. -The fifth leg Is Jointed to the lert side of the bai k bone, hangs down between the two natural hind epS. and splits the milk: hag. The extra leg. which is onlyj about two inches shorter than the others. Is twisted half way around in, the knee joint, thus making i he hoof. set backwards. The hip joint oi the freak l.g grew with the rest of the1 body, but below the knee there was little appreciable development after birth. Quint's father and mother were both perfectly normal animals." |