A SNAKE STORY.
A friend of mine bas just come baek from the Yosomite, and he relates his experience. The stage driver found out that he was seriously afraid of snakes and immediately proceeded to make hie hair stand on end. “ Venomous reptiles I You b*t. I don’t know what reptiles is, but them snakes you can just bet your life ia venomous. Why, one day I was cornin’ down h»ra drivin’ a waggon, when I catches sight of a snake in the brush, all ready for a spring. My horses starts, an' I whips ’em up fast to clear the snake, don’t you eee, afore he could spring. He makes one clear spring, the snake does, an’be mi•£«* the horses.” “That was lucky—but you-you” “Lucky) Ton bat you life it w»s lucky. He misses the horses, the snake did, but he stuck his fangs clean through the waggon.” “ You don't say ! ” “1 do say, and mehbeii you won't believe it ; but i ’« a fact. He stuck i.is clean ihrough that waggon, an' that it swelled all up so bad that ‘►'o h/d to leave it by the wayside and take 'he horse# home.” — Sun Francisco 1 Chronicle.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1621, 16 August 1887, Page 3
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198A SNAKE STORY. Temuka Leader, Issue 1621, 16 August 1887, Page 3
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