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Show SNAKE AS A BOOTJACK. 6trange Story Told By Farmer Had Ample Confirmation. Snakes aro out In Lehigh, and, according ac-cording to tho declaration of Joo Hoffman Hoff-man of Sieshottzvllle, odo big black snako In particular Is n living boot-Jack. boot-Jack. Hoffman limped Into Bed' Lion yesterday with ono boot off nnd one boot on. Ho asserted that ho had tried to kick what ho thought was a stick out of the path, when ho was suddenly tripped up. Recovering hlf-scattered hlf-scattered senses he , found that t soven-foot black snake had colled hall Its lltho sinuosity aroundhlfl left boot nnd the other hnlf around a small plno tree Hoffman tried to yank hit. foot loose and the boot came off. Ter rifled by his experience, ho fled. A party of doubters went In search 9f tho snake, but after It had gone a short distance It met a brenthlehs runner, who inquired If there was' a preacher In the crowd, as ho wanted to take tho pledge. Being cross-examined ho deposed that he had seen n blnck snnko crossing the hills earn lng what appcarecrto bo a section of stovepipe. No further confirmation of Hodman's story being desired, the doubters turned hack. Philadelphia Record. |