F. Ziegfeld Jr's production. Cin'ti ; N.Y. : Strobridge Lith. Co., c1898.
New York is full of surprises. The Bronx, doubly so.
(NYTimes) A 30-inch-long, 60-pound tortoise was discovered in the yard of a Bronx house when a woman came home on Tuesday.
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But they don’t know where the owner is. “Nobody has come forward yet to claim: ‘We lost our tortoise. Do you have it?’ ” Mr. Gentles said on Wednesday afternoon. (By that evening, a man showed up claiming to be the tortoise’s owner. Animal Care and Control was trying to verify he was the owner, though reportedly the tortoise ran towards him like an eager dog.)
The tortoise was taken in and named Shelly by the workers at Animal Care and Control …
Thanks, Blah3!
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