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Show When SNAKE EATS SNAKE for Supper Old King Cobra Snapped by the Zoo Camera Man While He Is Having a Six-Foot Meal All in One Course Upon His Friend From New Jersey 1 VLfV -3v 2?&f3$& f"r;- ' Old King Cobra, who is twelve feet long, making his supper of a Jersey pine snake six feet long. IF THERE Is any other picture of snake-cat-snake in the world the zoo men of the country would like to see It. This is a famous old King Cobra from the land of the Hindu, where the temperature of the blood is always 105. He is having supper and he Is very, very happy indeed, almost as, pleased as though he had his teeth in a coolie's heel. He would rather have a fat man, but he can't swallow a human being after he has killed him (and he kills 22,000 Hindus every year in the deep jungle), so he stuffs himself with brother reptiles. His supper here Is a Jersey 'pine snake. It is 6 feet long, and old King Cobra is only 12 foet long himself, so by the time he gets his victim down he will be pretty full. However, his -skin and his ribs will expand and take care of the meal all right, so old King Cobra will simply go off into some dark corner and sleep the clock ' around two or three times. He is the only snake in (he world that will deliberately put his nose to the ground and trail a man down to kill him. He is almost as good- as a bloodhound in this. The Hindu who sees a cobra trailing him will stand still and wait for it to come up and poison him. The Hindus are the politest polit-est people in the world. They think that the King Cobra is a sacred snake and that the man who dies from his bite will go straight to heaven and have a line time for-evermore, for-evermore, all on account of having been so nice to the hungry serpent. There is no doctor or hospital or patent medicine that can keep you with us after a cobra has put his fangs into you. Usually you leave very quickly. |