Sickle Found in a Tree.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 8 May 1914, Page 8

Sickle Found in a Tree.

An old-fashioned sickle stuck into a maple sappling- 70 years ago by an irate father while he chastised his two sons in a harvest field was found imbedded in the heart of a large tree cut down in Indiana. While Daniel Nupp, a farmer, was harvesting crops on the old farm ! in Green Township in 1843, he,; asked his two sons, George L 0 ' years old, and Cyrus, seven years old, to carry water for the harvest hands. The boys went into a nearby wood and sat in the shade. The father, who was cutting grain with a sickle, lost patience, and, after jabbing the point of the sickle into a sapling, hunted the boys. Find- ! ing them, he cut a switch and used I it vigorously. Mr. Nupp, having { forgot what he did with the sickle, hunted for it in vain. The tree was cut down recently by Cyrus Nupp, 77 years old. one of the chastised boys. Mr. Nupp sva s about to cut off a projection when he discovered the object was metal. He split open the tree, and found the long-lost sickle. He recalled the circumstance surrounding its loss and the stories of its disappearance told each succeeding harvest by his father.