Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1893 — Here’s a Tale. [ARTICLE]

Here’s a Tale.

“Do you know?” said Gov. John L. Routt, of Colorado, “that Colorado will have the largest and best display at the World’s Fair? It will. We grow the largest trees, have the richest metals in our mines, and are wonderfully fortunate in the character of our agricultural produots. On. a farm belonging to a friend of mine was grown a pumpkin so large that it could not be removed. We made a wagon road around it and left it there. One night a terrific storm arose—a perfect b *;ard. After it was over my friend drove out to see what had become of twenty hogs that were out in the fields during the storm. All he expected to find was the dead bodies. Imagine his surprise, then, to find them safe and uninjured inside the big pumpkin, growing fat from eating a vegetable primarily intended for the manufacture of pies.”