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Show Pitched Battle With Snake. Sturdy old farmers of Udine, Italy, watch out where they do their promenading these days following the dispersion of the snake jamboree, which was held in the courtyard of a farmhouse beneath the protective cioak of a huge haystack. Several women were removing the hay when hundreds of vipers Italy's only poisonous snake begun to ooze their way out from underneath the pile. Poors were slammed and peasants peas-ants armed with spades and scythes went to war. They had killed about r0 vipers when a six-foot adder snake with a pair of sparkling eyes crawled over the top and charged the enemy. The women opened the barred house doors for their men this time. Later on in the day the peasants, again attacked the haystack, but meanwhile the visiting snakes had departed, leaving the dead unburied on the field of action. |