Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-26
HOW SNAKES SWALLOW FROGS.
Two Truthful Stories of Frogs Rescued
After Having Been Swallowed.

Two Truthful Stories of Frogs Rescued
After Having Been Swallowed.
"I'n tell you snake story" said a
gentleman to an Easton Md Ledger
reporter last week, elf you won't give me
away when you publish it. 1t is true
story, but there are some incredulous
people who may be skeptical about be-
lieving it, and L don't want to be too
closely identified in the public estimation
with snake stories, or with snakes in any
style.''
500 on with your snake story" said
the reporter, E'yOur personality shall be
respected by the Ledger, even your initials
shall be safe; and nothing shall be said
that will give clew to the man VINO
told the story, be he the author or the in
YentOr Of it,"
otis not invented, its true; and this is
s.The other day 1 was going up the road
toward Wye Mills in a wagon. A man
named Morris was with me. This side OF
Potts. Mills we noticed a snake by the
roadside. Pm death on snakes, and so
! stopped the wagon, and Morris and L got
| out and killed the snake with a stick. 1t
| didn't try to get away. After we had
| killed tit was black runner-we no
| ward the tail end of half way its length.
sHe's got frog in him. suggested Nor
ria. let's cut him OPEN A knife was
| nr0duced, and we proceeded to dlssect
| fine aIimentary canal of the snake. Sure
enough, the protuberance was frog, but
the strangest part of 1t was that the frog
| was alive and well, and as soon as releas-
| cd bopped away as lively and asjoyful as
YOU ever saw frog. About the time we
| released the frog Mr.. Lex Pascault and
his son came along and saw hlm leave
the snake and make his way of. Dom
Won think this remarkable story to be
truep ,..,-
ooh. no,' said the Ledger reporter, sits
not remarkable. In the first place, no
new snake stories are remarkable, on
general principles. All the remarkable
ones have been told long ago. And, in
the second place, I myself once saw an
instance very similar to this, only more
so. Twenty-Five years ago three oil us
were walking one afternoon on farm III
this county some twenty miles from Eas'
ton. We found a snake with frog IN his
mouth. The frog was making desperate
efforts to get away, and had power u
lump and drag the snake with him. Bu
. the snake meant business, and kept or
swallowing the frog. One OF th'
J party went to the house and go
a Ratchet, and when the snake
= had got the frog entirely swallowed "
, cut it open with the Ratchet, just to tn,
starboayd of where the frog was lodged
and the frog jumped out and hoppe,
I away, winking his left eye at the MAJ
( with the Ratchet as he went, for all Tn
I world like some men winking when OF
2 dering saltwater. Not bone or mn
. was broken, and it did not appear tina
| even his feelings were hurt. So, you, see
I having been there myself, L don't thln
i your story remarkable"
e But / always thought that snake
e swallowed frogs head first. The one Nv
1 told you about was swallowed In tina
way"
!: ''WeH, that may be so; but in telling
q story of this kind the narrator must ce
d tainly have the faculty OF placing the fro
K in the way it will do the most good to II
7 interest of the story. fmy frog had bee
u swallowed head first he could not haN
d Jumped and pulled the snake after hin
and dramatic incident in the story woul
l. have been lost. Seeg' He said he did.