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Show WRONG kIND OF MUSIC. Itnltleaanke Dlacovcrcil Among: Content Con-tent of n MumIc nock. Miss Florence Cflnierony a pretty and plucky girl whose home Is in Oakland, Co.1., had a remarkable experience tho other morning. She discovered a rattlesnake rattle-snake between two sheets of musln nc she was going over the pieces in search of some particular ballad, and only succeeded suc-ceeded in killing it after an exciting encounter, nays the Snn Francisco Chronicle.. The snake wa not a large one, yet it. was big and vigorous enough to have inflicted in-flicted n fatal, wound had it been given. READY TO STRIKE. ntJhnnce to strike. Miss Cameron had bundled the music freely in the search ifor .pertain compositions. The music is kept in a rack mailc for the purpose, nnd this stands in n drn-wingvnom near a window. The presumption is that the reptile crawled in through this window and secreted itself in the music as the first place of hiding that it came to. Miss Cameron stood directly over ths rack as she went over its contents, and the' first glimpse she caught of the , rinkt jvns as it thrust its head out from tn.der one sheet, as if to look for coming com-ing danger. Before it had time to strike, I Miss Cameron -was on the further side uf the room. The snake wriggled around and gained the iloor. It colled up, ready to strike, as if in realization that there was trouble at hand, and rattled at a furious rate. It-colled and leaped several sev-eral times, -but by this time the young lady and the family were forewarned. luiid kept well out of the way. After a skirmish, in which Miss Cameron took a lending part, the snake was crippled and dispatched. A lot of portable articles arti-cles were thrown at it, After which the young woman dealt it the blows that ended its life. The snnke has been examined by several sev-eral experts, and pronounced a species of the "black-ribbed" rattler, that is more than ordinarily venomous. |