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SOME SNAKE.A Mouter Twenty Feet Long end Ten Flt; Inches in Diameter DUcowtd by a Farmer.Pierceville, Ind., August 20.—The stateof fear and dread of impending evil with * which at present every man, woman and * child in this little hamlet and surrounding '° country is endowed, culminated last night “Jin a condition of terror both laughable and P1 real, when James Wright, a highly connect- 3 ed and prominent farmer, living one mile P* from here, came to town with the intelli-gence that he had seen the monster reptile.Wednesday Mr. Wright was plowing ** for wheat in a field which fa was bounded on the north and south sides by dense woods. He had made several circuits of the land when finally, while going serenely along the south side, he struck the trail of some animal which ° had been made since his previous furrow.It immediately flashed into his mind that 'this was the track of the snake, and quick- P®tothtodgwlit If Uin m U rv Cl Vl A
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Aurora Spectator
Aurora, Indiana, US
Thu, Aug 27, 1885
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