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Show Ills- Snuke Attacks Girl. I Aliss Jennie Kernaghan, of "Mount I Vernon, N. Y., had a fight with a black snake ami although the snake was killed, tho shock of the encounter prostrated Miss l-Cernaghan. Before Miss Kernaghan's house is a lino lawn on which a croquet set is spread. Miss Kernaghan and some k friends were playing eroiiuel, and she drove her ball through a wicket uuder an apple tree, at tlte'edge of the lawn. As she approached the ball for another stroke a black snake, which was afterward after-ward found to be nine feet long, dropped from '.lie bough of the tree and fell upon her. She shrieked as the snako coiled aron:- 1 her neck, but managed to seize it and throw it from . y Iter. Tho snake, angry, again attacked Her, winding-iiKiH.'d be arm, trying to bite her as t he, endeavored, to shako iiim off. "Wilii net- 1'ieo hand Miss Kernaglinu tried to disentangle herself and hurled the snake awuy. Again it seized her clothing and wound itself around her body.' All t'lif very quickly. Then Miss Kernughnn si ruck lief deadly assailant u lib 11 e oquet mallet. Her brollier Wi.'.i.un run up, and hil- f. ling- II10 snake i;li ins mullet, almost eul. oil' ti,, head. Then William climbed the upple tree. ' ,1 hollow of it ho 1 found fourteen young- black sunken lihldou and easily .(o.- putcheit litem. |