Show col cold water T thrown arow n on that h milk snake story acm bat I 1 am reminded of a conversation that I 1 once had in the pine barrens with tin on old darky who claim claimed e d to be nn an expert on snakes 1 I had that day caught a large birge specimen of a king snake that black and white serpent which Is 13 immune to the tha bite of any snake in north america and which ft III kill in a fair light fight any rattlesnake which it may meet tho sight of the king snake started my colored friend on a line of snake stories among them I 1 remember wag one about a cow on bis big fathers farm that suddenly went dry when she sha was watched it was waa found that every afternoon the she would go down into tho far end of the pasture and low invitingly whereupon a milk snake would creep out of the gross grass and milk her whet when the snake was killed several quarts of milk gushed out of its mutilated body after its death the cow pined away and died it was a very sad story and quite as true as most snake stories the stomach of the largest milk sanko holds about four teaspoonfuls ant and it could no more milk a cow than could a bird samuel scoville jr to in wild noney honey |