A Snake Story.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 82, 10 March 1885, Page 4

A Snake Story.

I Snake stories' always:, partake; largely of the marvellous,' and as ,a rule would' do no 'discredit' to : that 'hot very' yeracibns clironiclcr, Baron M iinchausen'. ' Truth however, 'is ofteli*stranger than 'fiction, and the following story T for die story of which we can yo.uch (says |he Gipp'sland '^Mercury) : sh,o.w that ■ even- in "death snakes ;do notvlqse t,Ueir,gi;ftVp'£, jitj'ng the m'otiv.e-u, power., of .strange adventiiites/- Sojfle, little o t?i,me ..ago.; ,th^ daughter of a. Gippsjand selector with: a little deadsnakp*! j jvjiigh ! she carefully preserved m a /bottle bf ; bran,fly. jt , Her, i'a{;her ; is ,notf a./Blue-ribbpn,rnan, .arid is ' fgnji, 'o ' aiY. occasional glass, but is (i so.; care, .'.fully watched*. by , fe. fetter, l)ajf,' ; ; th,a.« he has few chances pfi ge.ttjpg. !<pp9session of the spirit- decanter ..Qnejaiig-Kt lie'ca^igfusl^-'stol^araiind; fto fifid i^'^Hie'ftiir^ hahd dnebuntGr->ied-a{bqt^e"o6 tWe'^hfelf. lf He 1 drbw=i ■ike iebr^'sm^lt ';'&&£ ccfti'tentsv ■ ; seemed': to 'hi ; m"to' l)d "liis ; eli'fir bf life, bu V.l^ke |jir ? ' l'ickwi^ ' . "anH Jl clie ■ milk-p^nciij lie 'coulcl Vot [ form ' ' a ' positive. opinion . without tasting.' He' did S9,;'a^d jo'.liis'd^glujfouiVa'tfmt 1 . 1 the botjtlei, cojntained., bra.i)d^ .. lie , dranl^ again and ,a,gaVir,. gcaclualj.y^ tilti ng '.* thes • h©ttqm „ 0f,, ; thq (jo'ttle . heavenutodi'wheiii-s.uddienly.Jie.fei^ somej round substance gliding, down,, his throat. Striking a-match m his' •terror, hfriPoimtthSvltli feelings^] t^ctf} ? aceUnde : scrib^b|.e ?s .the body of a little, i snak^ dangling from between' His ; teethl' In his consterna'tbh^he woke the _h^ldjthe realisation, to- some extent, 'nofUh'e figurative expression! -tl^at gh^Devil is m; the clip,, and that? into.xicatipg. beverages . ..sometimes really ' do "bite like- adders"; ;•; .r '.'■ '/ "..I'-