WHAT WAS IN THE BOTTLE.
The other day a West Hill woman found a large, dark bottle, worth about a pint, in the closet, and she immediately took it down and jerked out the cork to see what there was in it. She smelt it vigorously for a second, and then, unable to tell just what it was, she tipped the bottle very cautiously, but before it was more than half turned over the little green snake that her son had stowed away in that bottle shot out and dropped into her extended hand, and the curtain went down on a most magnificent transformation scene, red lights burning on one side and green at the other, grand overture by the orchestra, trumpets sounding the flourish behind the scenes and the full force of the entire ballet before the footlights. Long before the police could break in the front door the snake got away.—Exchange.
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Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1721, 26 August 1879, Page 2 (Supplement)
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