Show gotham oth am clergyman keeps snakes as his playmates snakes bitten tie ho explains lie ho hns has nl at ways waya been lucky enough to have a pocket packet of scrum handy lin nily once grasping a cotton mouth ho he escaped by tho the width of a thumb help was waa 20 miles anway being struck by a snake Is more or less lesa dangerous according to tho the part of the body bitten and how far the victim Is from help according to doctor meyer some hara harmless iless varieties of 0 snakes closely resemble in their mark ings some highly dangerous ones ho hei says amusing to doctor meyer are sto oto rice of hoop that tuck their tails in their mouths anti roll down hill arof or of tho the snake that scatter into sections at the approach of danger only to reassemble when nil all to la well tho the preacher Is in not quite certain no as to tile tho species of serpent that was lit in tile garden of ilden eden but ho he says it must have been n special reptile be causo cause it had ears cars and none of tho the snakes which lie ho Is acquainted had cars |