Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1893 — An Umbre la Story. [ARTICLE]

An Umbre la Story.

?hll3delphi 11 ost. • Z . .‘>‘P<shaw,” said the man from Geor ?ia “the snake stories that are going ibout are all too thin! WJiy, just look here. Last spring I went out into the woods. I took along an umbrella, which I laid down on some rocks. Well, about an hour afterward I went to get my umbrella, as it had began to rain a little. I took hold of the handle and as I gave it a shove something began to tear and as the umbrella flew open a black snake fell to the ground split in two from its head to its tail. The confounded critter had actually swallowed my umbrella and I never noticed it until I shoved up the thing and split the cuss open from stem to stern.”