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Show BABY .JCHARMED BY 8NAKE. Mjther Hears It Stop Crying, Then Finds It In Reptile's Colls. Vlnconnos, Ind. Mrs. C. M. Wolfo wis In hor garden picking beans, whon slo heard hor two-year-old son, Karl, wUo was amusing himself about 20 feet away, begin to cry. Soon tho biby stopped and tho mother paid no attention to him uutll sho had fin-Itbod fin-Itbod hor task. When she turned to And hor boy qjfe, saw him standing llku a statuo a;'tthu same spot where- ho had beon when crying. She 'spoko to him, but h would not move. On closor Invostl-Bitloa Invostl-Bitloa she was horrified to see the i boy charmod by a huge blnck snako that hud wrapped Itself around both arms of the child and was waving Its head to and fro before tho lad's eyos, whloh woro fixed stnrlngly on tho snake's. With a stick tho mother uncoiled thu snako, and It crnwlod away. The spoil broken, tho boy's musolos relaxed re-laxed and ho bogan crying anew. Mrs. Wolfo carried him to tho house and dropped in a faint. Tho buby's wrists are badly swollen where tho snake had wrapped Itself around them. |