Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1910 — ADDER IN GIRL’S MILK PAIL [ARTICLE]

ADDER IN GIRL’S MILK PAIL

Slx-Year-Old Tot Says, “Bee the Big Worm I Caught”—Bracelet Prevents Bite. I Waterbury, Conn. —George C. Densmore of Mount Tobe sent the six-year-old daughter of a New York butcher, George Holden, to the barnyard for a milk pall. The child got the pall and running to Densmore said: “See the big worm I caught" In the pail was a red adder, the deadliest serpent of New England. It’ had struck the girl on the arm, but a bracelet stopped the blow. Densmore killed the reptile. Not 20 feet away he came upon the mate, rushing to the rescue, and killed It also. Densmore says: “It will soon get to where we Tobe folks must choose between adders and summer boarders. We shall certainly not be able to keep both happily.”