Bug in an Ear

Bug in an

"Ha ha," a Mr. Boudreau of White Plains, N. Y. used to laugh to friends of his 23-year-old wife Catherine, "she thinks she's got a bug in her ear.'' Mr. Boudreau's skepticism seemed justified for, as his wife admitted, nothing had entered her ear since a cricket flew in, and that happened when she was an 8-year-old girl playing on her father's farm in Galway, Ireland. But last week Mr. Boudreau was confounded, Mrs. Boudreau triumphant.

Mrs. Boudreau had had pains in her ear off & on for 15 years. Last week the pain got so bad that she went to Dr. Ellis H. Edwards, obstetrician, of White Plains Medical Center. He slipped his forceps into her aural canal, between the outer and inner ear, drew out an object three-quarters of an inch long, stared at it in amazement. Then he sent it to the laboratory which soon reported that it was indubitably what he had suspected--the skeleton of a cricket.

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