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Show CHILD AND DOS KILLED BY A SNAKE SNAKE MADE ITS NEST IN A GIRL'S RAT. Child Took Up the Headgear and Was Struck By Rattler Dog Went to the Rescue. Mason Valley, New, May 25. The I 7-year-old child of Andrew Inman of this place Is In a critical condition and the family dog Is already dead a3 a result of a small rattlesnake tak- , ing up Its place of abode in a "rat" worn as a head adornment by a young ' daughter of the Ingmans. v The reptile entered the house In somo unknown manner and secreted ' Itself in the rat, which lay on the 1 floor of a clothes closet. The child ' I picked up the headgear and was . j struck on the wrist by tne rattler, the fangs penetrating deeply. The dog, which attacked the snake and was bitten, died. The child may die. The . snake was killed. j |