RATHER LIVELY.
A telegram sent from Orangeburg, S.C., said :—Samuel Crawell, an aged Negro on the farm of Jobs P. Cuttino, twenty miles from this place, while chopping wood was taken violently ill. Dr Sally was called, and found the old man in convulsions, lie kept grasping at his sides as if something was gnawing at his vitals. The Physician, observing this, administered an emetic. Soon after taking the medicine the old man began to vomit, and within ten minutes had ejected from his stomach six fullgrown lizards. The old man soon began to improve, and in a couple of hours was able to get out of bed. Investigation proves that four years ago, -while drinking from a spring, the Negro swallowed what at that time he said was a lizard : but as it gave him' no trouble he soon forgot about it. The one he swallowed was, doubtless, a female, and the others were born in his stomach. Dr Sally has preserved the lizards in alcohol, and they are the talk of the whole country.
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Patea Mail, Volume XI, Issue 133, 26 February 1886, Page 2
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