A WONDERFUL STORY.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 262, 3 June 1868, Page 3

A WONDERFUL STORY.

The JBuovrus (O.) Journal states that during the great snow a lad near that place went out to the potato mound to get potatoes ; after clearing away the snow, and breaking into the mound, he found he found a kind of nest in the straw, in which was a compact ball which he took to be a large ball of string such as our wool men use. He brought this in with the potatoes, and laid it on the baby's cradle near the stove. His mother just then sent him off to a neighbor and continued about her work. He was gone an hour, and when he returned, upon looking for his ball, he found that it had resolved itself into a pile of squirming snakes, many of which were seeking the warmth of the infant's body, and one had actually entered the infant's mouth. A cry of alarm from the boy attracted the attention of the mother towards the cradle, virho seizing the the child, sought to extricate the reptile, but was too late, and it actually drew itself within the baby's mouth and down its throat. Dr Ingraham was sent for, but he recognized the snake as being the common terpent neplus, and therefore perfectly harmless. He declined wcnyine; the bab 7 with medicine, and the child seemed unhurt by its singular accident. The mother declares, however, that its appetite i 3 much increased, and in its sleep it frequently hisses loudly We believe this is imagination, as that species of serpent or snake does not hiss.