The Ring and the Cucumber.

Waikato Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1440, 28 April 1914, Page 6

The Ring and the Cucumber.

, A remarkable of ihe loss and ' iT-tjovery of a cobi Hug come . under our noiice (s t.ys r.ne Wanganui . - Herald.) Aho it two months agq a joungladv ievident.of GronviVie while e igagpd wr-<-it.-ng in the garden, lost .*• gol.i lit:n I ring which-she was ' w<-nri.;,.- She and others searched • . d»l.g-«,iL. lor the treasure, but withy out vm-c./ss, and finath* it was given uq-is f.-t. However, on Saturday a : 4 brotu fi'jijxent out to cut some cueumwus surprised to find the ' . mi-sing ring e uMivled on the end of . one vd4he vegetal,ies. It was firmly, fixed on, tlm rud of the cucumber ' having grown shout an the ring: Whether the ring slipped off the young..lady's linger on to the ■yotni'u .cucumber, or whether the eui:ijir:l)r-r as it gre\v picked up the ring is had to say hut the owner i was naturally very pleased to have •the rins; restored to her, and JoubtW less she '-will treasure it ail the more -. s alter, the strange circumstances con* >eetf,d with its loss and recovery.