Show I 5K E5 INHABIT ATl NT CELLAR R GREENEYED REPTILES GIVE GEORGIA PLUMBER AN UNPLEASANT UN-PLEASANT EXPERIENCE IS SENT TO REPAIR PIPES Mistakes Wriggler for WalkingStick Store Above Place Formerly Rented by Zullka the Snake Swallower Atlanta GaLast fall No 63 De catur street formerly the heart of At lantas bowery was rented to a snake swallower and thereby hangs a tale Tho store for it Is on the first floor Is located next to the old Young Mens Library association building and in the heart of that section of the city which likes a show and best of all announced a side show Flaming pictures nounced the fact that Zullka eats them alive Entering the place Zullka would be seen seated on a platform where she took wriggling curling snakes Into her hands and passed them seemingly Into her mouth Instead however there was a very clever funnel arrangement whereby the snakes went wriggling down the pipe and dropped into the cellar under the floor Zullka lasted for about two weeks and the store was placed on tho market for rent A tenant was secured last week and a plumber sent to look over the lob of repairing It Dave Yarbrough was the man who got the job Now he never attends Decatur street sideshows side-shows so of course didnt know Taking a lighted candle in hand he descended the dark steps to the dungeonous cellar guided only by the faint light of the candle Arriving Ar-riving at the bottom he saw a long black walkingstick lying on the ground and stooped to pick It up It wriggled squirmed and ho dropped It In terror It was an outstretched black snake Turning quickly to retrace his steps the candle was blown out and lie was left In styglan darkness He managed to find the foot of the steps with his shin and began his way up to where the door stood open Ho caught a glimpse of a halt hundred pairs of green eyes b a r A iI I I He Dropped It In Terror staring at him out of the darkness and made a dash for the door only to hear the door with the spring lock bang and snap Alone In a cellar with GO snakes He had hardly strength to crawl to the top of the steps and to beat feebly against the door To his intense In-tense surprise It flew openfor It had not caught when It slammed Hurrying to the offices of Forrest George Adair the renting agents he told of his experience Weak scratched nervous and bruised he told what he had seen Drown the janitor of the firm claiming to be tho champion snake killer In the country was told of the experience and dispatched to investigate Ho went to the cellar armed with a lamp that wouldnt blow out and killed by actual count G3 snakes The snakes had been in there since they first made friends with Zulika |