Show SNAKE ON MANS NS BREAST Soldiers Terrible Experience With Deadly The Paris Eclair tells a bloodcurdling serpent story the scene of which was wag the island of o Martinique and the dra dramatis mats matis personae Sergeant Legrand and Private Durand and the snake a dead deadly deadly ly 10 The soldier had been punished with a night In the cells ceils f for r some trivial of offense offense tense but as the night was very hot the sergeant had left the door open In Inthe Inthe Inthe the morning at 5 Legrand went to take tak his prisoner and to his horror beheld a snake coiled up and fast tast asleep on the mans breast The sergeant did not lose his presence of or mind He stole noiselessly away ran to the guardroom and followed by all the men on duty dut returned to the cell with a bowl of oC milk and a tin whis whistle whistle tle the Placing the bowl of milk at the entrance to the cell the sergeant began to play The Blue Danube It Is need needless needless needless less to remark that the weakness of the is milk and music The serpent which was a specimen specimen sped men awoke glided gilded from the soldiers body bod toward the bowl had no noI I sooner buried burled its head in Its beloved drink than ten cudgels descended on onit onIt onIt it with terrific force killing it outright The soldier Durand who was In a aswoon aSwoon swoon soon was taken to the hospital where he lay la for many days da s on the verge erge of or madness He finally recovered and re related hated his horrible experiences how he had awoke in the middle of oC the night as the serpent was coiling Itself on his bare breast and how he had lain there thereIn i In an agony agon for tor hours not daring to move a muscle Durand was sent back to France as soon as he had sufficiently recovered The only trace of his terrible experience experience experience ence adds the Eclair is that his hair is isnow isnow now snowwhite |