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Show FEEDING A BIG SNAKE. Xli Apptllng Meal of BobbiU That Bi Constrictor Delights In. Three cojpulent rabbit" of Belgian breed were caged in ft soap box quietly awaiting their fate. They were the meal for which the snake was anxiously awaiting. await-ing. He had not tasted meat in four months and his voracious maw yawned like a bottomless pit for the unfortunate trio in the soap box. Manager Bell appeared ap-peared and drew forth one of the rabbit. After stroking "bunny" on the back for a moment he opened the door to the snake's den and thrust him in. The huge boa had coiled himself up in a corner, but at once roused himself for action. He was fully twelve feet long, and having recently shed his winter coat his skin glistened and shone like satin. He raised his head a foot or so from the floor and viewed the first course of his qnadri- annual meal. The rabbit showed no signs of fear, but rather seemed to enjoy his new quarters. Tho snake slowly lowered his head and cautiously began to stretch himself along the side of the den. He never once took his eyes off the rabbit, which was still unconscious of his danger. dan-ger. Suddenly the rabbit began to act strangely and to cut all sorts of ridiculous ridicu-lous capers. He would leap back and forth over the snake and then rnbup againBt it, and appeared to be fascinated. Slowly and stealthily the snake turned his head about until it was within a foot of the rabbit's haunches. Then, quick as a ftoh, he darted forward, seized the rabbit in his mouth and iu another instant in-stant there was nothing to be seen of the little animal save the tips of his ears, which protruded from between the folds of tho snake. The huge serpent then raised his head full two feet from the floor, darted out his forked tongue and hissed horribly at the motley group watching him. If there was any struggle on the part of the rabbit it was not visible. Tho snake had him in his awfnl coils. Then the coils slowly, but with a strength which was terrible to look at, begaa t tighten till every bone in the poor rabbit's body must have been broken. This done the coils relaxed, aud the limp, lifeless body of the sportive rabbit of a few moments before lay ready to be swallowed. First the serpent nosed his victim all over. The eyeballs of the dead rabbit were protruding from their sockets, and by way of beginning tho boa licked them with his tongue, Once more he coiled about his victim, leaving its head and shoulders free. Then he opened his monstrous jaws and, taking "bunny's" head therein, began to swallow. Soon the head and shoulders were out of sight, and in less than fifteen minutes tfie hind legs followed. Chicago Inter-Ocean. Gave Himself Away. Among tVio attractions at a one horse circus that recently exhibited in Augusta Au-gusta was a ltisty looking fellow in paint and feathers and curions trappings, trap-pings, purporting to be a Zuln warrior. A friend of the Maine farmer glanced at the figure and then turned away, remarking re-marking to his boy: "That's nothing butachoapNew York negro." , This aroused the ire of the warrior, who in the most emphatic tonus and iu plain English claimed to be a Zulu. "You're nothing but a negro," repeated our friend. "That's a falsehood," shouted the alleged al-leged Zulu, "I came from Australia last year!" Lewiston .Journal. |