Ogden Daily Standard | 1892-07-22 | Page 2 | A Humorous Snake

A humorous snake in marianne norths recollections of a happy life lafe Is a description of a tame make its mistress would sometimes twist the pretty bronze creature in the great plait of hair she wore around her head bead and once threatened to go down thus decorated to a it dinner party of rather stiff people dut but one of the snakes own ecce eccentricities serves to distinguish among all other reptiles rep tilea of a similar which have served as pets it was as fond of glittering things as ita its mistress herself and when she took off her many rings and placed them on different parts of the table it would go about col them and stringing them on its lithe body then it would tto tic itself in a knot so that the rings could not be taken off until it was pleased to untie itself again