Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1891 — An Antiquated Toad. [ARTICLE]

An Antiquated Toad.

While a large fir log was being sawed in a Michigan mill the other day, something strange happened. The outside slab and one board had been cut off, and the men were turning the log over preparatory to squaring it when they were surprised to see a large toad poke his head out of a hole where he was imbedded and where he had barely escaped being cut up by the saw. He was completely incased in the wood, with no possible means of Ingress or egress. As the log was the third up from the butt of the tree, his position must have been about sixty feet from the ground. There is but one way of accounting for the fact that he was found in the position named. He had grown up with the tree from infancy, and was probably hundreds of years old. when the saw awoke him from his long nap.