Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1895 — A Snake Story. [ARTICLE]

A Snake Story.

Here, 5s a snake storyfroma BechuaJ naland paper which we do not remember having seen before. A Barberton man, who goes to church regularly, was one day walking along” the banks of Concession Creek eating a sandwich, and on account of the usual disparity between meat and bread he threw the’redundant piece into the water. Immediately a swarm of yellow fish bubbled around it, fighting for the mouthful. The man searched his pockets for fishing tackle, but all in vain, and was-just beginning to (lie of despair, when his eye lighted on a black sS&ke. At that moment he remembered how his father used to tell him that black snakes were \ cry expert in catching fish. He therefore grabbed the reptile by the tail, carried it to the river,' and held It over the struggling fish. The snake proved itself a born angler, and In the course of an hour the man had captured forty fi3h. A few days later, as he was walking in the same place, he felt something rub against his leg, and looking down he saw his friend the black snake, eager for more sport— Rangoon (Burmali) Times. After living to be 90 years old, a Chicago woman committed suicide recently.