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Show Chewing Gum Chokes Rattler. Lackawaxon, I'a.-HDarrlo Withers and Anne Munroo, Philadelphia young women boarding at a farmhouse near this place, ran across a rattlesnuko and put It out of business with chewing gum. Miss Wlthers.took a long stick i uud placing tho gum'Mn tho ond shoved I It toward tho snakeJ which struck at, It, gottlng the gum In- Its mouth. Tho reptllo tried to oxpoljit. but tho moro it tried tho firmer tti aeemed to tnko hold. Finally It roljed on tho grass as If choking, and tho young women called a farm hand, who killed It. Thu gum had wound about the snake's fangs. |