Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1894 — A Snake Story From Africa. [ARTICLE]

A Snake Story From Africa.

Rangoon Times. Here is a snake story from a Bechuanaland paper which wO do not remember having seen before: A Barberton man who goes to jhurch regularly was one day walking along the banks of Concession Creek eating a sandwich, and on account of the usual disparity between neat and bread, he threw the relundant piece into the water. Immediately a swarm of yellow fish oubbled round it fighting for the mouthful. The man searched his aockets for fishing-tackle, but all in rain, and he was just beginning to lie of.despair-when his eye lighted >n a black snake. At that moment xe'remembered how his father used io tell him that blacksnakes were very expert at catching fish. He therefore grabbed the reptile by the Sail, carried it to the river, and held t over the struggling fish. The make proved itself a born angler, pid in the course of an hour the nan had captured forty fine fish, A ew days later, as he was walking in -he same place, he felt something •ub against his leg, and, looking lown, he saw his friend, the blackmake, eager for more sport.