SQUEEZING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1827, 30 October 1884, Page 2

SQUEEZING.

"Ars you afraid of snakes?" a Hawkeyo reporter asked Nala Mamajante, the Hindoo snake charmer with tforepaugh's circus. " Are you not afraid the great anacondas may some time crush you in their powerful folds?" And the tender-hearted reporter shuddered as he thought of the picture in the School geography of a snake 11 feet long crushing a full-grown elephant into a pulpy mass ot bonedust and minoe-meat, preparing to ring up the dinner act in the prodigalBon drama, " Afraid to be squeezed to death!" said Nala Mamajante scornfuly. " la, no! I lived in Connecticut all my life, and our pastor—hia wife wasn't congenial, you know, and he was one of these old bald-headed boys who are always yearning for an affinity and all that sort of thing—oh my, he could just give a python points on squeezing." And she wrapped a twenty-tbree-foot python about her waist, and as the enormous snake caught on and shut np • until its eyes stood out like sleeve buttons, and its tail was set as rigid as a poker with the immense strain, Nala Mamajante half closed, her eyes, leaned back her hoad, and said dreamily:—" Tighter, you dude; brace up and take hold of me, can't you}"