Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1879 — The Chestnut-Tree of the Hundred Horses. [ARTICLE]

The Chestnut-Tree of the Hundred Horses.

Travelers say that people in Sicily tell of an old-time-hollow tree called “The Chestnut-tree of the Hundred Horses,” because it could hold a hundred horses together within its trunk! That must have been “once upon a time,” I should think; but I’ve heard of a man who actually saw, near Palermo, a tree measuring about twenty-five feet in diameter, and arching over the public roadway which passes through its trunk,,.—“ Jank-inrthe-Pi/Jpit,” in St. Fiuhol&s. *