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Thought It Was A "can Rubber."

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
February
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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James JobuRon, of Lanibertville, used tobáceo exoessively - always had a abew ín his cheek, and couldn't row a boat without upsetting it, iL he shifted the black mass from oue side of his face to the other. He kept his nicotine íd the cellar tor the nioisture. Last spring it "began to disagree with hini," as tbe auaconda said, after swallowing a porcupine. He had stomach sickness, went bliud in Augnst, and experienced a sensation as of snaken crawling up his legs. He doesn't chew now, aud is better The ciroumstances that constrained him to swear oft' and keep the oath are as follows: One day in Angnst, he groped bis way to the cellar after another moist hunk of "North Carolina Pig tail," aud put his hand iu the sack in which it was atored. Tbe sack was empty save a quantity of "can rubbers,'" aud Johnson returnud and op braided his wife for taking the tobáceo out and replacing it with can rubbers. His wife said she had done nothing of tbe kind, and weat, herself to see about it. Johneon went along, and tgether tbey examined tbe sack. The can rubbers turned ont to be a blacksnake two feet long, whioh had been keeping Johnson's choioe "ehawin" moist and sweet. What became of the only piece that reraaiued in the sack, Johnson does not know, bat thiuks the suake swallowed it. He emptied tbe snake into the fire, and layiug hold on the horus of the family altar, swore by his gods, uover to take another ohew.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News