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Show 'r t ' w .--. r? i -., - VvnONG KINU ur tviUSIC. , IlntltoHiiukc meovvrMl A mom; Com- ' lontM of n Mtiio Illicit. J fJ& SS 'orence Gamcro.i, a prqlty ami i ,1 plucky girt whoso home Is hi Oakland, ' CnL, hfid n remarkable experience the tf olliorinonw.'tr. Shu discovered n rattle- t,' s: akc b t u tu o t !m In el" mm ic, n fchc was p ;fiff rcv the pL-cn hi .e.m .1 j. i of sonic pn .leular ImI'.juI, anl onlynu- cecth'd l J.il.ing it after an exelttyr cneounfer, saya the San Franetto I , ,.iClirpniele. 1 ' .. .?J,,19 nakc was nbt a large one, yet it j was big and vigorous enough to have inflicted in-flicted a futal wound had it been given li ft W -y--1- A' I ll " ' '" RKADT TO 8TRIKL'. chance to strike. Miss Cameron had handled the music freely hi the search A, for certain compositions. The mufeie is lg ,, kept iu a rack made for the purpose, jp Jind this ta"iN in 11 drawingroon; near J n window. The presumption in that the J reptile er.nv'.ed in through this, window ' and secreted it.elf in the mut-le as the ' f ' fint places of hiding that it came to ! ' 'Miss Cameron stood directly over i: rack as the went over it- contents, and the firt glimpse she caught of the t make w.i as it thrust it head out from r under one Micet, as if to look for com- ? tag danger. Before it had time to strike, i Misu Cameron was on the further side JU of the room. j " The snake wriggled mjound and 1 I gained the floor. It coiled up. ready to I 4 strike, a if in realization that there j I -was trouble at hand, and rattled at a I fc.' furious rate. It coiled and leaped sev- I feral tinier, but by this time the young j lady and the family were forewarned, ' mui kept well out of the way. After a ' " kirtniKh, in which Miss Ca inert n took if a leading part, the snake w crippled 1 r-.H-hM. -uud dispatched. A lot of portable artl- f J$te.?leS were -thrown at it, fter which the f Th young woman dealt it the blows that I. S ended its life. The sitakc has been examined by sev-X sev-X eral experts, and pronounced a species f, & of the "black-ribbed" rattler, that is If 31 more than ordinarily venomous. |