Show A serpent of the sea chancellor rand of mcmaster university received by express a box which when opened wai was found to contain a snake make some soma nina nino feet long of slender der build and d of a dull doll mud color an accompanying compa nying letter explained the tha arrival last may while on the way from the tha philippine islands the theodore theodora IL rand band a ship named after the chancellor was caught in a heavy gale gala off the african coast everything was battened down and ye yet tafter after some hours during which the seas ran bodily over the tha vessel teasel the helmsman felt something like a rope around his leg and looking down was horrified to find this snake the ship at the timo time was more than a hundred miles off the shor ewas closely battened and had not been in port for some weeks many theories havo have been raised to account for the reptiles presence some thinking it had bad been washed aboard luring during the storm others othera that it had lain dormant since the ship left port and others suggesting that a ge genuine nuffie sea serpent had at last been found the captain forwarded the snake to the chancellor as a curiosity toronto empires empire |