SOMETHING LIKE SNAKES.

Dunstan Times, Issue 634, 12 June 1874, Page 3

SOMETHING LIKE SNAKES.

Country journalists who are accustomed to rely on snake stories to help them through the dull times, may see what developments this class of literature is capable of, by studying the following extract from the New York Tribune That there should be two snake stories gliding through the country papers at the same time is an embarrasraont of riches calculated to cloy the most eager taste for that sort of thing. The subject of one of these talcs sports the merry day away in Lake Chaplin, and is beautifully formed for a sailor, having a natural hood on the hack of Lis head, with a cap to keep the rain olf. He lias also a very large mouth, and smiles engagingly on bystanders, as if to say, ‘Approach, 0 breakfast - ’ The other snake is a Southern one, of an amiable temper, A gentleman, while lately employed in gathering raspberries, became fatigued, and sat himself down on what ho supposed to be a log. To his dismay he immediately began moving down hill, and presently found himself sitting upon the hack of an immense serpent, sixty feet long and corpulent in proportion. Ho arose directly and gracefully retired - ”