Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1884 — A Good, Healthy Snake Story. [ARTICLE]

A Good, Healthy Snake Story.

In North Carolina there is a reptile known as the joint snake. When attacked it Hies to pieces, < aeh piece taking* are of itself. A .1 ..key attacked one of them one day, dto Isis utter amazement it broke .. up, each section jmcph gt ir vt t. rent direction. In the course ci lJ* our iie returned that way and wa* utterly amazed again to see it all to- .« er except the tail piece. After vra .g a few minntes he saw the tail com; m> to join the body, taking sharp, q- k ii't'e jerks. It came nearer and n rer until within a few inches of ti o threeqnarter snake, when it gave a sudden jump and hitched on in its prone• place with a fuss resemblipg the pop i ig of a cap. The darkey knocked it pieces several times, and each time ' came together again. He carried his amusement too far, however, in tbroving the tail pairt of the snake across the* creek, just to see, he said, “how long it would take it to catch up,” but it never caught up. The snake, with its three joints, was carried to the house, where a new tail is beginning to grow to repl ice the lost one. A gentleman who knows much about this singular species says n head will grow on the detached trunk, and there will be two snakes instead of one. —Charleston News and CtsuriPF.