Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1896 — A Victim of False Pretences. [ARTICLE]

A Victim of False Pretences.

L. D. Gordan of Jefferson City, found i a huge black snake the other day which had chocked itself to death in trying to swallow a porcelain egg which ithad carried off from a neighboring hen’s nest*