Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1919 — Winter Snake Story. [ARTICLE]

Winter Snake Story.

J. K. Campbell of Vandalia. Ind., vouches for this December snake [story: “On December 22 my daughter and I started across a piece of timber lai>l ito a neighbor's home. Our dog went into a hole where a tree had blown over, and, was routed by a five-foot ■ black snake, whiclr. Was hanging on , sbme berry briers. I killed the snake with a club. The shake had the appearance of having swallowed a rabbit. but investigation disclosed that the snake had robbed a hen's nest. - and had swallowed m china nest egg, . We missed the china egg last July.”— Indianapolis News.