Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1917 — WAS CREATURE IN THE WELL [ARTICLE]

WAS CREATURE IN THE WELL

Tommy Had Never Seen It, but Knew It Was There Because It Smelled "Terriblelike.” Tommy Is nine and he has nine’s vivid imagination. He was out on a lake some little distance north of Indianapolis with a friend of his father. Tommy never was premitted to go out on tehlake in a boat, even though the lake was in his front yard, unless he had an older person along. So he just naturally warmed up to the visitor. “Say, don’t tell anyone, now, won’t you, if I tell you something?” The visitor uttered protestations of — "Well, there is a well over in the woods, and it hasn’t any bottom to it — runs way down to China, I guess. And it has a creature in it. (The visitor grew interested.) Yes, sir! Oh, it must be a terrible creaturel” “Ever see It?” asked the visitor. “No, sir,” answered Tommy, truthfully, though no doubt it detracted from his interest to the visitor. “Uh-huh-um. Well, what does this creature do?” “Oh, he smells terriblelike. Some day we think he will come out of the hole. And we don’t go by the woods at night.” Then the visitor interviewed father while Tommy was down the beach playing, and learned that there was a sulphur well in the woods, and that no doubt it did “smell terrible.” —Indianapolis News.