A RESPECTABLE SNAKE STORY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 278, 30 November 1878, Page 5

A RESPECTABLE SNAKE STORY.

The biggest snak* atory of the season comes from Pennsylvania, an 1 concerns a woodman and tree agent. Farou Potts, age I 45, fell asleep one afttrnoon while clearing a tract of land at Warwick Furnace. He awoke with a choking sensation, a etrauga taste io his mouth, and hia throat feeling riw. He had slept with his month open. Mr Potts was straightway taken sick, and after vomiting copiously, he was nearly strangled by something which worked iuto his throat from his stomach and then disappeared. All that afternoon he drank freely of water, and, goiai; home ho sent (o a neighbor's for help. Dr Gephart, the agen', wasselling trees there, and hastened to Potta help. Herb drinks and siroag tea wero given the offlicted ram throughout tha ni^ht but spasm followed spasm, and he woa uot relieved. In the morning Dr Gephart strung Potta up in a shed head downwards, and, inhiling the steam ol boiling milk, the suffarer was nearly chokiug to death, when a heal proceeded from his mouth. This tho doctor grasped, and pulled out a en ike nineteen iuuhts long and haif-ao-iuch thick, The statement that the reptile hai protuberances growing oa its back like feathers, and on its sides like fins doss not add to the general credibility of the tale.