Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1893 — Why It Was Rejected. [ARTICLE]

Why It Was Rejected.

Imlianapolls News. A farm editor received the following story and sent it to the curiocolumn collector, who returned it because he knexv it stated facts and not fiction. A horticulturist had missed many apples every night. Finally he set a watch, expecting to trap his neighbor’s boys. In the dim night light he saw limbs of apple trees shaking, and then he heard the fruit falling. He had seen no one enter the orchard. Nonplussed, he crept up close to the shaking tree. He saw a hedgehog descend from the tree, roll over on the apples until its back was laden with the fruit attacked by the quills, and wabble off. The farm editor didn’t doubt the story, but wondered what an insect-eating animal wanted with apples. “For the worms,” triumphantly explained the curio man.