Dawn Vigil
(N.Z P. A .-Reuter—Copyright) PUNXSUTAWNEY (Pennsylvania), Feb. 3. Wbile most Americans were enjoying their Sunday morning sleep yesterday, hundreds of groundhog watchers were up and doing.
About 400 trekked to the top of a hill at daybreak and watched a little groundhog called “Punxsutawney Phil" cast his shadow.
And at Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, about 100 people turned out at the same time to watch “Jimmy” cast his.
Popular tradition among the watchers is that the groundhog comes out of his hole on Groundhog Day to look for his shadow. If he sees it, he takes it as an omen of six more weeks of bad weather and crawls back into his hole. If the day is cloudy and shadowless, he stays above ground. Some of Jimmy’s and Punxsutawney Phil’s fellowgroundhogs didn’t quite make it They ended up on the menu for last night’s banquet of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31904, 4 February 1969, Page 6
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