THE BEST CHOKER.
A girl fourteen years old, in the employ of Jerome Brock way, has been spending a few days in the wilds of Pike county, Pennsylvania, and had a narrow escape on Saturday last from being strangled to death by a snake. She was sent by her mistress out into the woods to pick whortleberries. She crossed the lake in a small rowboat, and, accompanied by a small Newfoundland dog, walked about three-fourths of a mile into the woods where the berries were plenty. After filling her basket she sat down on a log and ate her lunch. As she was about to start for home a large black snake sprang about her neck and began choking her. The frightened girl screamed at the top of her voice for assistance, but there was no one near enough to hear her cries. At length, when she was so exhausted that she was unable to cry out, the snake twisted its head around so that she could reach it. At first she was afraid to touch the monster. Then, realising that she must do something or perish, she caught the snake about the neck and chokedß until it relaxed its hold and fell to the ground. The girl then threw the snake against ajrock and succeded in-killing it. She tied a small hid .ory withe around the snake’s neck and dragged it home. It measured six feet and eleven inches.
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Globe, Volume IV, Issue 427, 26 October 1875, Page 4
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