FASCINATED BY A SNAKE.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4852, 29 July 1884, Page 2

FASCINATED BY A SNAKE.

A Port Jertis letter says;a'party of gentlemen on Sunday visited a famous snake hole on the farm of thelate-W. T. :atmocl.With'' horsewhips for the purpose of killing : b!r.cksnake3, whic'i abound iv that neighborhood.;; After killing as many at they could find,; they for the ! purpose of botauising.- Lateron one of their number epald not baicraud.-"'''fie^ turaing to, the snake-hole, the missing ' one was ob?ery.?d standing in front of the " hole, apparently spellbound, rioi? could any amount of ealline attract his attention. On going closer his friends were horrifi:4 to see ao immence blacksnake, just renit tp coil itself ar^icdihfm. The' man was rigid, while, hisieyeittarted from their sockets. ThesUake was mimng. itself >m ?. a wavy mQnner/aad slowly getting closer to his almost- eatrappeii i victim. The situation WRB; at pncie understood, and^ !«i» saakeship was dispatchGd, while the man was placed in a waggon. He says he was completely-charmed, saw beautiful colors, and experienced a perfectly peaces f.ul sensation which would not permit him to go away or resist. If his friends had not armed as they did it ig probable he would h&xa been strangled to deaths a« ■ these black snate's'wnijßpil about a person and choke Wn^; to; death. Tie snake was a large one and measured nin6 reet^n length.- ■'■ ■■./W:'%^:-;^:; : ;r-:■'/.::;:— •',•■■.,-■..~