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["Lyneart" <lyneart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yesterday morning, just after setting off to market pulling a wagon load of 
tobacco, I saw a tiny object crossing the road directly ahead. Hmm - awfully 
steady motion for a windblown leaf. I looked out my side window as the truck 
rolled slowly by just in time to see a shrew headed directly for the edge of 
the pavement. I got a good enough glimpse of it to see that it was too linear 
and pointy nosed to be a vole. It was definitely a shrew. I always wondered how 
much of a barrier highways were to tiny mammals. Not insuperable I suppose.
Frank Lyne frank@xxxxxxxxxxx near Dot in Logan County