The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-08-14
A MISPLACED SWITCH.
A Hotel put Into Q Condition Of tx
cltement by q Twist Of Hair.

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A few nights since q couple of youn,
ladies stopping temporarily at one OF GU
hotel. sat up late reading, when they cam
across an item, which told how womal
in Lafayette county preparing to retir
had found long blacksnake coiled up il
bed. OF course, such an incident this VA
calculated "a
MAKE THEN sHCDDER.
Their imaginations literally run rio
thinking of the terrible things that NIGH
have happened "a the lady had she gone l.
bed without first discovering the reptile
She might have been swallowed by it. o
escaping 30 great 4 calamity A. that
might have been bitten 10 death by it. In
deed it was difficult To conceive wha
might not have happened 10 her. Will
their thoughts running in this channel tn
reflection was very natural that \ snak,
might have cooled itself up in their bed
The thought WAS horrible. A search com
menced at once
FOR THE SNAKE.
Fortunately no reptile was found. and after
rediscnssing the whole affair, aud thinking
OF it over and over again, until the un
certain glare q the lamps seemed 20 fairl!.
scintilate snakes. they got int" bed. -
disturbed were they, however, that "ae Of
them forgot to take down her back hair,
and with snakes uppermost in her mind
dropped to sleep in a vision Of coiling rep
tiles An hour passed on AID
THAT GIRL AwokE
woke with scream that pierced The
house like q knife-a scream that wenl
echoing down the halls and corridors q
that hotel like the screech Of STEAM whis
tle-and il was folio wed by another and
another, each louder and more distinct with
terror than the first. Her companion
waking up Joined in the chorus, and then
the horror Of those shrieks was perfectly
appalling in their united terror. They
pierced every room and awakened every
inmate. Men and women half naked As
they Ieaped from the beds came pouring
into the halls, and with augmented voices,
the feminine chorus swelled into a refrain
and awful power. The atmosphere Of III e
crowded halls throbbed with screeches-it
waved
IN RIPPLES OF TERROR.
Finally after . great deal Of exertion a
gentleman in scanty apparel succeeded in
lifting his voice above the nproa- and in
quired the c.use of the alarm.
With paid face and quivering lips one
"f the young ladies pointed to the apart
ment they had just vacated and managed to
articnlate,
"There's snake in our bed"
At this awful announcement, several
ladies tainted and several Others & ave
utterance TO final shrek. But two gentle
men armed with sticks and shovels and
whatever other kind of offensive weapon
they could end proceeded to interview his
sn.keship. They carefully removed the
bed clothing and found-not snake-but
COIL OF HAIR
q rusty looking object, used by ladies in
giving . bevitching and plethoric appear
ance to the back part of their head. 1t was
then discoveed that the young lady who
had neglected that part Of her night
toilette. had in Der restlexness unwound her
hair, and the rwitch slipping down had
come in contact with her body produced
sensation in some respect similar to what
might have been occasioned by a snake.
Whatever followed the reader can easily
infer but
THE YOUNG LADY
with that obstinacy which is a noticeable
PECULIARLY Of the rex. protests that it was
snake that had frightened. her. 1t must
have made its escap~,. She repudiated the
idea that the innocent switch could have no
filled her With terror, with SPECIFICS dis
dain. and to prove that she believed in her
theory, she spent the balance Of the night
setting up in chair. The rest, however
accepted the coil Of hair a. a solution Of
the peril and returned TO bed.