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The Massachusetts Spy, And Worcester County Advertiser
Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts
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Workmen cutting an elm tree in Long-lane, West Smithfield, discovered an enormous dead toad embedded in its solid heartwood on Saturday last, with blood flowing from the saw cut.
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Phenomenon. A curious circumstance occurred on Saturday last. Whilst the workmen of Mr. Kingsley, turner, of Long-lane, West Smithfield, were employed in cross-cutting an elm tree, six feet in circumference, one of the men perceived some blood follow the track of the saw, when they had got about half way through it. Not being able to account for so singular an occurrence, they hesitated some time before they proceeded to work again. On again placing the saw in the same cut, they resumed their labor, the blood flowing as before; when, on cutting through the tree, they found an enormous toad imbedded in the heart of the solid wood. It was quite dead, the saw having traversed its body. How the reptile obtained ingress to this place of solitary and close confinement, or how it existed therein without food or air, we leave for naturalists to determine, as not the smallest aperture appeared in the timber through which it could have crept.
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Long Lane, West Smithfield
Event Date
Saturday Last
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the toad was quite dead, the saw having traversed its body.
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Whilst the workmen of Mr. Kingsley, turner, of Long-lane, West Smithfield, were employed in cross-cutting an elm tree, six feet in circumference, one of the men perceived some blood follow the track of the saw, when they had got about half way through it. Not being able to account for so singular an occurrence, they hesitated some time before they proceeded to work again. On again placing the saw in the same cut, they resumed their labor, the blood flowing as before; when, on cutting through the tree, they found an enormous toad imbedded in the heart of the solid wood.