Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1892 — An Antiquated Toad. [ARTICLE]

An Antiquated Toad.

While a large flr 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 he 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 th« 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, hls position must have been about sixty feet from the ground. There is but one way of accounting for the sac: that he was found in the position named lie had grown up with the tree from infancy, and was probably hundreds of years old when the saw awoke him from hls long nap.