Farmer Finds Strange Root In Drainage Ditch, But Then It Starts To Move

Just A Root, right?

“That’s a root,” Edgar said out loud, mostly to himself. It certainly looked just like one, anyway. Long and heavy and mottled brown, curving out of the pipe and down into the muddy water below.

Some old tree upstream must have grown, broken down, and somehow discarded its roots into the canal. Right?