Here's the snake story. We were just discussing varmints at work, and what
parent wants to have to deal with this - but despite his/her fears, would.
Feeling good that all we have to worry about generally in our homes are
spiders, cave crickets, and maybe mice! I like to share stories from the
genealogy web sites with my non-genealogy interested co-workers - they
begin to realize that genealogy isn't so dull after all.
Bloomington (Indiana) Telephone, Aug 8, 1891, p. 1.
The Princeton Democrat is responsible for the story that Mrs. William
Huxley, living in the edge of Brown County, discovered that a huge snake
had
attacked her infant which was sleeping in a cradle and had swallowed
its
hand and was making good progress with the arm. She grasped the reptile
by
the middle, compelling it to disgorge, after which she killed it.
The
snake
measured seven feet two inches long and six and a half inches in
circumference. It was of the blue racer species.