;iung. M. Flammarion tells of two children who took refuge during a thunderstorm in the doorway of a stable (in France) in which were twenty-five oxen, there being about twenty yards distant on the other side of the yard a pond with a poplar tree beside it. A fireball was seen to descend the tree slowly from branch to branch, then down the trunk; on reaching the ground it moved across the yard, avoiding some pools of water, to the doorway, when on one of the children touching'it with his foot it burst with a terrific report. receiving no injury, while eleven of the oxen in the stable were killed.— Julian Strange, in, "Chambers's Journal.."-
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Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17585, 14 December 1928, Page 10
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