A SNAKE STORY.
" I have at home," he said, "a rattlesnake whose life I saved some years ago, and I haven't the slightest doubt but that it realises it. 1 ran across it when it was stretched out still' and eold, and freezing to death. Taking it home, I thawed it out, and, to my surprise, it seemed (|iiite tame, so J permitted it to remain in the house, and let it roam where it pleased. One night. I was awakened bv nif wife, who had heard a noise downstairs. I listened, and. sure enough, there was srtme sort of a struggle going on beneath ns. Snatching up a revolver. I crept downstairs, opened the door very, gingerly, readv to shoot on sight, and 'was stricken dumb with astonishment at what I
saw. There was that snake with'its lmilv roiled lightly round a burglar, anil its tail sticking out of the window' rattling for a policeman.''
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 212, 1 September 1908, Page 4
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156A SNAKE STORY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 212, 1 September 1908, Page 4
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