THE CHAMPION SNAKE STORY.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 190, 18 August 1870, Page 2

THE CHAMPION SNAKE STORY.

Some of the papei s in the south and west are trying which can tell the toughest snake story. The Virginia State Journal, recount* one which we think fairly entitles its editor to the champion belt. A negro woman living near Chesterfield, Va., according to the Journal, has a nursing child, which occupies the entire night usually in imbibing its regular nourishment. The woman has frequently, during the period, imagined, while in a semisomnolent state, that both the maternal founts were being used at the same time, and mentioned the circumstance to the hus band and sever d friend.-, who puzzled their brains to account for it. She was afflicted -with asthma, and frequently sat during the warm evenings with her dress loosened, to allow of greater ease in breathing. One evening she was siting thus, half-asleep and half-awake, when she felt something creep over her j shoulder and down upon her bosom. She immediately roused her torpid faculties, and glancing clown saw a monstrous black-snake in the act of sucking, its basilisk eyes gleaming into hers. Of course she was frightened almost out of her senses, and screamed and threw up her hands in the wildest terror, which alarmed his snakeship into loosening his hold and executing a prompt disappearance. 'The alarm also awoke her husband, who was asleep in tho same room, and who was at once informed of the astonishing circumstance, lie thinking that the reptile would return and attempt to finish its meal, took a favourable position and waited for luin. In a short time the snake, which was of enormous size, camo out, and after a short battle was dispatched. This is certainly a remarkable jslory, but it is vouched for as strictly . true by our Richmond cotemporary.