Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1883 — Hog and Snake. [ARTICLE]

Hog and Snake.

It is told that a rattlesnake lay coiled, with head up and rattles sounding notes of anger, while a hog walked around it with bristles erect. The snake finally struck at the hog and fixed its fangs in her jaw. She raised her head, and the snake was fastened to her. Instantly she caught the snake’s body in her mouth, put her forefeet on his tail and stripped the skin up. Renewing her foothold on the body of the snake, she took another puil and tore the snake in two, and then complacently set in to eating it. Dr. Bremer, in a german journal, advocates exercise in the high, fine air of the mountains as the best protection against the diseases contracted in city life;