| Show held IL H python bythe by the tall hilll an east indian traveler related a curious experience with a aj python he was sitting among some trees in a wood w when lien he noticed a movement in a thick gross growth th of vines overhead and looking up saw the form of an enormous snake evidently about to drop on him hardly knowing why he sprang forward seized the tall tail of the snake with both hands and rushed into the clearing the th e snake which was resting on a mass of interwoven boughs was taken entirely unawares and easily pulled out showing a body nearly as large as a mans thigh and twenty or more feet in length to have been caught in the folds of such a creature would mean certain death but this ingenious snake taker did not give the animal an air opportunity ile he ran on oil dragging the reptile some distance then moving slowly in a circle soon having it off the ground arid and in the air swifter and swifter lie he swung the hideous object until he was flying around him in a straight line there was a large palm tree not far away and moving gradually toward it he soon brought the ess head against it with a crash that sent the monster stunned and helpless to the ground where it was dispatched by the natives who at first had fled with terror watching in 0 from their concealment this astonishing spectacle which illustrated the courage of 0 the white man |
