Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1914 — Frank Haskell Had a Fright While in Country. [ARTICLE]

Frank Haskell Had a Fright While in Country.

Frank M. Haskell, the 'barber, visited at the hoane of bis wife’® mother near Pleasant Ridge one hot day recently. He found a cool place in the shade of a tree and stretched out for a nap. He felt something at one arm pit, apparently a bug and for a second the sensation stopped and then he felt it again. He thought a bug bad crawled up his sleeve and he raised up to in vestigaite, when a small gartarsnake amlbled from beneath his arm. Needness (to Say it gave him quite a friigiht. The snake had not been used to animate objects and had crawled beneath his arm evidently for shelter from the heat.