Among accidents of an extraordinary nature, the following may be recorded, and it is vouched for as truth:- A man who resided at Chichester, having gone upon the rocks in search of shell-fish, perceived a large lobster in a chasm, and rashly thrust in his hand to pull it out.
The lobster seized on his thumb, and the man, as it is supposed, actuated by the impulse of pain, thrust his arm forward to disengage his thumb, but was unable afterwards to draw it back, and the tide flowing, he was drowned. He was found in the situation described, his thumb dreadfully cut, and the bone broken.
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