Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1892 — Monster Chicken Snake. [ARTICLE]

Monster Chicken Snake.

Last spring fate scorned to be against Coroner E. 8. Thompson as a chicken raiser. His young chickens began to disappear mysteriously. First he lost four, then eight, and later eight young ducks. The robber of his hen roost would disappear and leave no trace bohind. The faithful dog was unahlo to follow the trail. Ono night, during tho last week of court Mr. Thompson heard a noise among his fowls. He hurried out aud a surprise awaited him. At a certain spot a hen was roosting on the ground, her young brood huddled near her. Near her Mr. Thompson found a monster chicken snake. About tho middle of its body it had a chicken in its deadly folds. Nearer the tail it had a second in the same fatal clasp, while with its mouth it had seized a third. The snake was promptly killed, and the seemingly lifeless chickens were about to he thrown away, but Mrs. Thompson proposed that they should be put under the hen. It was done, and morning found them revived and seemingly nono tho worse for their narrow escape from death. —[Lafayette (Ga.) Messenger.