Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — He Thought Himself a Squirrel. [ARTICLE]

He Thought Himself a Squirrel.

Thomas Odell, living near Greenup, Ey. , lately met death in a peculiar manner. Whenever the young man ate beef he would go into the fields, crawl about on his hands and knees, bellow like an ox and eat grass. When he partook of mutton his actions were those of a sheep and he would bleat plaintively. Eating ohickens caused him to dig for worms and crow or attempt to lay eggs. His father the other day gave him some squirrels for dinner. No sooner bad Tfcomns fairly digested them than hi# curious mania came on hi pi and he rusfced into a grove spmp distance from bis home apd began tp climb the trees, His father saw him leaping from tree to tree and barking harshly. He called to him to oome down, but this only seemed to make the boy want to escape, and he attempted to jump to another tree, but missed his hold and fell to the ground, a mangled, breathless mass of humanity, and expired in less (hAP flee ndautee.