The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-10-31
POUND HER RING IN A TREE.
The Young Woman Had Lost 1t in n
Lake-some Tail summer
Yarns.

beginning to come in from the sur
rounding country, and experts say
that the quality is even better than
usual. One of the important duties
of the local newspapers is carefully
to chronicle all the yarns sent IN
from localities contiguous to this
city, and this slight encouragement
is more than enough to set in mo-
tion the think tanks of the liars of
southern New York and northern
Pennsylvania, says the New York
Sun.
From one of the many small lakes
in this region comes this yarn, which
is youched for by the leading hotel
keeper of the place, and the postmas-
ter, who is his brother. Three years
ago young married couple came up
from New York to spend the summer
at the lake. Aefew days before their
return to the city they were out row.
ing, when the young wife, who had
been trailing her hand in the water,
screamed that she had lost her we'd
ding ring.
When she pulled in her hand, sure
enough the ring was gone. 1t had
slipped off and gone to the bottom,
and as the spot where she lost it is
one of the deepest in the lake no at
tempt was made to recover it. So
bad did the young woman feel over
her loss that she never returned to
the lake again until this summer.
IL 1. 4 I,n
postmaster, she was out rowing on
the lake with her husband. Sudden
ly the CLINT of metal high in one of
the trees attracted the attention of
the couple. 1t seemed to them to be
a ring, and rowing ashore the hus-
band Skinned up the tree to find out.
1t is stated as a positive fact that he
found the wedding ring that his wife
dropped in the lake three years be-
fore on the branch of the tree.
How it got from the bottom of the
lake to the top of the tree was of
course mystery, which the wisest
man might hesitate to attempt to
explain. But did the hotelxeeper and
his brother. the postmaster, hesitate?
No. sir. They were right handy with
an explanation.
They found fishhawk's nest in the
tree, few feet back from where the
ring was found. and it revealed the
whole thing to them at once. A fish
had swallowed the ring, and cavorting
too near the surface was nabbed by
the hawk, which took IL up to the
nest and ate it. Finding the ring n
trifie hard on its masticating appa-
ratus the hawk threw IL out, and 1t
caught on the limb, where it was
found.
There is fellow down in Susque-
hanna who tells snake lies about as
artistically as anyone in this region.
He pretends to have found a two
headed blacksnake in n deserted quar-
ry last week, and a detailed ac-
count OF this wonder of nature has
in several newspapers. IL is
described as being three feet long.
One foot OF this is body for two, for
there are two heads, each perfectly
formed, and two tails.
This snake liar has built his two
headed wonder on the general plan
laid out Dy Mark Twain in his story
of the extraordinary twins, for he
says that one head seemed to be do
ing all the controlling of the body
when he ran across 1t. The other
head just went along as though it had
to say about the direction in
which the whole should go.
Straight across the quarry in a
westerly direction went the snake,
when suddenly. to the amazement of 4
the man who found IL. the head which I
had seemed so indifferent to the way 1
things were going perked up and I
seemed TO take command. tt turned i
the body around and started in an
easterly direction. the other head
sinking irso a condition Of complais-
ance. much like that exhibited by its
fellow few moments before.
How long this sort of thing would
have kept up nobody knows, for the
snake hunter just dropped on the
freak, and took it home in a bag. The
story goes that II can be seen at the
home Of its captor any time. but no
one from this city has taken the
trouble to go to susquehanna yet to
see st.