Show A REAL SNAKE STORY the serpent got cot into the hornet it neat to catch the hornets nor nets A citizen of fredericksburg va claims that while traveling to hannock he saw a large bl blacksnake acks make slowly crawling among the branches of a tree that stood by the roadside following the snake olce with his eye the observer saw an unusually large hornets nest attached to one of the branches of the tree and toward which the snake was advancing when close to the nest the snake coiled itself about a limb releasing its tau tail and with it gave several hard raps upon the exterior of the nest as if knocking for admission the noise of the blows and the swaying of the nest caused the hornets to leave their home and prepare for an attack upon the intruder the snake ceased tapping with its tail as soon as the hornets left ft the nest uncoiled itself and quickly disappeared taking the place of the 1 armets within their nest I 1 presently the he snakes head was seen to peer out and its bright black eyes glistened as he anticipated a feast from which clithe the bravest man would shrink with fear the snake drew his head within the entrance hole to the nest until nothing was seen of it except an occasional car cas i ional 0 nal forked tongue that darted in and out with lightning rapidity thinking the coast clear the horii hornets ets begun began to return to their nest when the snake took them in as fast as they could enter watching the proceedings for some time our informant concluded that all the hornets had bad been safely hived dived and he stood up in his buggy tapped the nest with his whip and awaited the result I 1 no hornets appearing the nest was then knocked to the ground opened and his found in a torpid condition with his size greatly increased the snake was killed and a postmortem post mortem held with the following result stomach stuffed with dead hornets |