Show comans womans salt bif C control an englishman traveling through i ceylon describes in the london telegraph a startling experience that be fell ell his hostess at a dinner in trin comalee the dinner was excellent but when it was about halt half over I 1 was waa startled by hearing my hostess tell the native servant to place a bowl of milk on a deerskin near her chair although she spoke as calmly as if 11 giving an ordinary order I 1 knew at once that there was a snake where in the room for those creatures prefer milk to anything elea As a hasty movement might have meant certain death we all sat eat like statues but bat for all that our mr eyet eyes weart inspecting every nook and cor cop ner of jhb he room however it was not until the milk was placed on the deerskin that the snake appeared and then the n to our amazement a lare cobra u uncoiled itself from my host hostess ess ankle and glided toward the tb bowl whore where of courso course it was immediately immediate killed Imag imagine life the nerve nee of the woman sho she fafri fainted ted when the lay dead on tho the floor now how many could have hava remained motionless jesa un lim d fer er the circumstances I 1 |