Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1892 — Caught a Pretty Snake. [ARTICLE]

Caught a Pretty Snake.

Ed A. Babcock, of North Stonington, Conn., while crossing his rocky farm met an odd and brilliant looking snake of a species that was believed to be extinct in Connecticut, and after a lively chase captured it. It is a little fellow, not half grown, and is black, except that a broad golden band encircles its neck. It belongs to t*he gbld-baoded racer species, which growofco be* ten ,or fifteen feet long and are swift and ferocious. '