Farmer Thought He Dug Up An Old Root, Then A Museum Asked To See It

A Tempting Thought

Mr. Dalton knew he had told Raymond to keep the find a strict secret. But the curator was simply bursting with the thrill of the discovery. “Surely I can tell my closest colleagues,” he reasoned to himself. “They could help me plan a proper and careful excavation of the site.” It seemed harmless enough.