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Show """ spin IHfflM SNAKE MILKED THE i OLD BRINDLE COW. I FAKMER FIKALLT DISCOVERS i MYSTERIOUS THIEr. I FIRST LAID TO WITCHCRAFT ' But Finally Bossy snd the Reptile Were Found Meeting fay Appoint- I ment and Now the Latter I la No More. Fine llrnok. Mich Abraham Hka dowskl, a Hebrew farmer living near i this plsre, has discovered the thief that dally fur the last four weeks has j been milking one uf his cuws And, what s mure Hkadnwtkl has i the thief's hide un the fence lint rig urstlvely, but llteially sakiug I It messuies more than half the length uf n ten foot chestnut mil to I ilrl Ink 391 Tilt H.NAM llrt.f'I'.II ITBKt.P TO A n(Mii) pi:iM) which It Is nailed. In plain sight of everybody that pauses along the rond -In front uf his house, Thoao that have seen It ssy It Is tho largest specimen of spotted or milk snako over seen near Fine llrnok Tho snake was killed by Ska dowskl himself In tho pasture lot ad Joining hla barn It had Just helped Itself to a good feed from sn Aid brlndln cow. The strangest part Kf the affair waa that the cow stood Vis quietly whllo the roptll waa milking ber as though It were the milkmaid' hand to which she submitted When Hkadowskl approuched the snake dropped In the grass And started tn crawl away, but be had n H trouble In overtaking It and killing jH It wllh a stick The discovery and H death uf tho nptllo cleared up a H in) sler y that for nenrty a month has HH been piiasllng the Hkadowskl homo- HE bold ID It was early In June Hint the farm flH er, on going In the lwrn)ard mm HI night tu milk dlMUti'ied Ihnl none . flsl could he drawn fium the urlndlo cow 'H une nf the heaviest milkers In hla HH herd uf It Kvery night since It BH the mi spent the day In the panliirr JH field, II was Ibe asm w n In the H illuming "he would lie alt right and H also at night on the few days d irlurf )Hl Ihnl period that Hkadowskl kepi her H routined In the limits uf Ibe Urn. ijHjl anl It was only when turned looen HI tu I lie puntlire Hint the milk wna IHI taken olHI None nf the other rnws were evel H aruictitl In the same manner and Hl how in lucount for Hie strange eon il dltloll nf nffalra wits he)uml Hka jHJ do w ski's pnwer He reported the clr 'fl cumsluiice tu his Hebrew tielL'titmrs, jHJ but they could offer no relief He IHJ called In thu rnbbl, but the religious HI f leader could give no belter advlco IHjl than the In) men. All wero Inclined HM itu attribute It to witchcraft or sumo .Hl other supernatural cause a wunted jHlal tho rabbi to kill tho animal, but this (HH thn latter refused tu do, as ho said lH tho meat would not bo "kosher." ur IH clesn, according to Hebrew standards 'H Skadowskl then, un tho advice nt HI one of his American neighbors set a jM watch on thn cow whllo In the pas Hjl lure, wllh tho result that the mya H tery waa cleared when the snnke was t killed JH1 Thn cow had separated herself !H1 from the rest of the herd and camo IHI toward tho bam It was near milk- 1'HI Ing time, and the farmer thought H nothing of It. as she, ns well as tho Hja! rest, was In thu habit of romlng home H about that hour What wat hla sur- H prise to see her stop near a clump iH of blsckberry bushes, out of which ,H the snako glided and ran to meet ber. 'H It looked as though thu two met by 'H some prearranged appointment When Hiram Ferry, ono of the old eat farmers In Finn 1 1 rook, saw the HI snake and heard Hkadnwakl'a story, H he said that ho had thought It waa HI a snako doing the milking all along, H Ho clalmid that that particular breed t HJ of snskes was getting very scarce In Hj Jorsey now, but that formerly they HI worn plonllful it "I believe that the milking of a fsHjl cow by a snako la one of tho rarett iH things that ever happens, and that iHl conditions must be Just right for It JHjl to batmen. In fact. If there should UaTaH beBhundmfmoro KlIttnBiTiTa- '"1W'M1 that pasture, and a hundred cows (HJ wero to pasture there. It might never ,H occur again Hjl |