Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1878 — Snake and Cow Story. [ARTICLE]

Snake and Cow Story.

George Neighbor has been in the habit of pasturing his cow in Andy Long’s pasture, near the old Catholic cemetery, and recently lie noticed that the cow had begun to* fail in her usual supply of milk. Thinking that some one was supplying himself with milk from his cow, he set a boy to watch the pasture. The boy was quite vigilant, but failed to see any one disturbing the cow. The boy further noticed that she failed to go home with the other cows; instead, she would go behind an old house and there stand. The watchman followed, and discovered a large snake sucking her. In driving her away the boy aggravated the reptile, and it bit the cow on the teat, which, on last Sunday evening, resulted in death to the animal. This is certainly a strange phenomenon. Toward the last the cow refused to leave the place where the snake frequented.— Wheeling ( W. Va. ) Register.