Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1896 — A Horn Inside of a Tree. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A Horn Inside of a Tree.

Not long ago a huge dak tree was cut down In a Michigan forest. 4 As the woodman split it up his ar struck something hard, which he thought nt first was a knot. But when it knicked the edge of the steel blade he made 1 up his mind that it must be something very much harder than a knot. ' So he cut around it carefully, chipping and splitting until he laid the object bare.. It was a huge deer horn, buried, in the very heart of the big oak. How It came there is a mystery. Perhaps some pioneer hunter or some Indian of

a hundred years ago had shot a deer, and, to keep it from the wolves, had hufig’lt up -by the horns in the limbs of a young oak, expecting to come back-soon and claim it. But either he forgot where he left it or else some accff&ent, happened which prevented Iris return, and the horns remained in tiie tree year after year,, until the wood grew entirely around them. The part of the tree containing the horns wast-sent to the museum of the Michigan Agricultural College, where it now is.

A DEER-HORN IN A TREE.