"Pshaw," said a Yankee hatchetthrower, " the snake stories that are going about arc all too thin .' Why, just look here. Last spring I went oat into the woods. I took along an umbreller, which I laid down on some rocks. Well, abont an hour afterwards I went to get my umbreller, as it had begun to rain a little I took hold of the handle, and as I gave a shore something began to tear, and, as the umbreller flew open, a lire black snake fell to the ground split in two from its head to its tail. The con* founded critter had actually swallowed my umbreller, and I never noticed it nntil I shoved up the thing and' split the oojs open from stem to stern I"
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4455, 16 April 1883, Page 2
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