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Show GIRL HAS A PET SNAKE. Turns It Loose In Schoolroom and Frightens Scholars. Now York. -Pupils of tho Morse high school have beon known to permit per-mit all, kinds of Jokes since they have been in the new building presented to tho city of Hath) Me., a few years ago at a cost of nearly $100,000 by Charles W. Morso, of New York, and thoy have boon as varied us could be Imagined. It has been tho rule, however, how-ever, to lay such Jokes to the boys of tho school, and rccontly n demure young lady perpetrated a trick which made any of thoso played by tho boys 1 look small In comparison. Sho had been studying zoology, and had been presonted with a snnko considerably con-siderably over 12 Inches In longth. This sho carried to school, wearing It as a band about her hair, and thon during dur-ing a sly moment placed It In Principal Prin-cipal Colo's desk. In an unscon moment mo-ment tho reptile mado Its cscapo from tho desk and wriggled Itself down on tho platform nnd started for an oxlt, when It was scon by somo of tho girls, who bocamo so frightened that thoy stood In their chairs, and It was onjy after BOino minutes of torror thnt ono of tho boys mannged to capture It, when prder wns onco moro restorod In tho schoolroom. |