Twelve Years In A Knot-hole

A gentleman who lives near Gainesvillo, Ga., had a colored man building kim a new rail feúco. A terrapin happencd alonjr that way. and the negro sceing a knot-hole in tho rail that he thought the terrapin would fit, plae(i it on his back in the hole and laid tho rail on the feneo. Twelve years later, ia tearing down the fence to reset it, thö terrapin was found in the knot-hole in comparIative jood health. seeming not to have suiiered much irom his lon;j conCneiaent.