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Show James Whitcomb Riley is a busy literary liter-ary worker. Some one recently asked the poet to do a piece of work, and ho replied: "I can't! In the writing lino I was never so involved before. Even the hope of waking to find myself famous is denied me, since I haven't time in which to fall asleep." While excavating for tho foundation of a new opera house iu Atlanta, Ga,, lasf, week, workmen found a live snake "six feet below the surface." It was an ugly, poisonous moccasin, nearly five feet long, and fought hard until killed. |