Show bif I 1 i I 1 i I 1 cold water thrown on that milk snake story I 1 aw am of 0 a conversation that I 1 once had in the barrens with an old darky aho ho claimed to be an expect on snakes I 1 bud that day caught a tar large e met men of a king anaki that black and white serpent iila is immune Ille to tile hie bite of orly any snake in north america and which illch hlll ill kill in a fair fight any rattlesnake which tt it may meet the sight of the king snake started my colored friend or on a line ot or snake bao rles among them I 1 remember was one about a cow on ills fathers farm that budac rily went nent dry when she was wag watched it was found that every afternoon she would go down into the lite far end of the pasture find and low invitingly whereupon a milk snake would creep out of tile the grass and milk her when the snake atna as killed several quarts of milk gullied out of if its mutilated body after its death the cow pined away and died tt it was a very sad bad story and quite as true as most stories the stomach of the largest milk snake holds about four teaspoonfuls spoonfuls IPa and an it could no more milk it 11 cow than could a bird Samuel scoville jr in wild honey |