TELL-TALE FOOTPRINTS
A few weeks'sigo excavators in the City of London came on the base of the massive wall of a Roman building. Some of the bricks of which it was built were taken as specimens to the museum afe the Guildhall, and when the mortar was cleaned off, on one of them, which ia 17in long, 12in wide, and 2in thick, woro found the imprints of the feet lof a dog. As the bricks after moulding lay on the ground to toughen befora being burned, this dog must have taken occasion to cross them. Two of tha footprints are close together, suggesting that the dog was chasing something (states the "Sunday Express") It maywell have been a Eoinan cat." It was certainly not a rat. There were no rats in London in the time of tha Romans. Many dogs have chased many eats since London first rose beside the Thames, and many more will doubtless do so, but few will leave, a record of the clinso for us to read seventeen, perhaps eighteen, hundred years after tha event. , •• ./
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 74, 28 March 1930, Page 3
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179TELL-TALE FOOTPRINTS Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 74, 28 March 1930, Page 3
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