The Maid And The Viper

In the famlly of a tettler who retfdei somc balfa league trom Paramottawasu invalid daughter of on extremely ner temperament. Shc wasslcepingonewn Dier ilicinoou iu a bammock Bwung lie tweeo two stamtnrds in tlie shade of Um piazza, wlien she was suddenly awakMNd ïy fceliug somctliing cold and moUlcling log about her ihroat. Sho put her baad to the spot and clasped Ihe body of n sn:ik just back of the boad, and, wiih ¦ liorritici! cry, wrenched wllh sll lier Btrength to wrench t away. Tuis w&sthf ürst instinctivc action of the moment, imi K) great was her terror Umi sho npeedily lost all conseiousne&s of her iiositioa. Hor band, however, siill grapsed the niaka whcre sbo had fiil sèized il, and wiiii siich convulsfre force Ihat the eren wiis rendeved poweiiess. The cry f ilic tenitied girl broujrlil the fatlur froni williin lbo house, wlio mstanlly canic to li' i relief; hut in Ihe lit whicb lier ftight iu dm rd Ikt band slowlv oontracted about the creature'a tliroat wltb n force whicb she eould uot possibly have ezerted wbeu awakc, and, liefore her finirers ere unclatped liy the aid of a bit of bamu oord tbe reptile wasbompletelv gtrangied Fortunately tlic crAure had mi bitten the girl before she seizod il and aftcr tlint it w;is unable to do so. lt is said to hn been four feet loug and of a poiapnoua s]ecics.