The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-10-09
BOLD, BAD SNAKE.
,,o Sought Revenge and Found
It in America.

III Sought Revenge and Found
It in America.
,sss than six months ago there lived
,be banks of the Upper Amazon as
sr.ctable and mild-mannered an m
.onnda as ever dangled from a tropi-
"a1 tree, He was a middle-agcd snake,
.mooId have stood twenty-six feet high
ou the tip of his tail, if he had ever
assumed that position, and immediate
~ after one of his monthly %luncheons
n monkey would have been described,
had he been an alderman, as ''having
a nresence"-a sort of lumpy stout
ness, There was nothing vicious about
him. and he asked little of life. He
wanted his monkey regularly, with,
nerbaps, on gala days, q young Bra
lillian, though in the matter of ma
t;ves he was temperate. Although he
had never tackled a Connecticut crul-
Ter or a Harlem goat, any Of his friends
would have backed his digestion at
heavy odds against whatever might
have been produced, not barring ten
neDny nails. He loved to lie a-bask-
inc in the sun on the banks of the
slumberous Amazon and be lulled to
soft reposc by the scolding of shrewish
macaws and %paroquets, who hated
him, and whose hatred he fondly cher
ished. He was a gentle, cheerful
snake, having in all the twenty-odd
feet of his bosom not a single grain
of ill-will or bitterness toward the
world. l..
By a series Of infamous outrages this
same anaconda has been transformed
from the peaceful, useful citizen ne
once was into an incarnation OF all
that is devilish. His n ambition now
is to kill every thing that is alive and
within his reach. His naturally mild
nature has been turned to gall and
NORWOOD, and he hates the world
and all that lives therein. 1t was a
beautiful hot day when his troubles be-
gan, and only a few months ago. He
never felt in better spirits in his life. He
lad just dined oil II monkey, whose
bones cracked lusciously as they
squeezed through the good snakes
smiling mouth. He had stretched him
self out and curled himself up cozily,
with the suns rays sitting warmly
down upon him through the trees over
head. The paroquetand macaws were
unusually virulent in their abuse. and
he had prepared to enjoy himself thor
oughly.
But he had barely got himself COM
fortably nestled together when he be-
came conscious of an annoyance. 1t
felt as though something was prodding
him in the fleshy part of the waist,
where the monkey lay. He raised his
head lazily, and not unkindly, and
with an 'Oh-lct-up'' expression in his
sleepy eyes. Then suddenly there be-
gan that series Of infamies which have
made him the misanthrope he now is.
He felt a sharp, rude slap about the
head, something frightened like a wise
about his throat, and before he could
pull himself together for resistance he
felt himself dragged along the ground.
Then all the indignity Of the insult
burst upon him, and he let forth his
fury. He writhed and struggled and
dashed the ground and the foliage all
about with his whip like tail. But it
was useless. On he. went, dragged
irresistibly. unrelentingly On. Through
the film which the tight rope about his
neck cast over his eyes he could see
that he was drawn at the end of a long
rope, at the other end of which were
foul or five Brazilian natives Juggling
with all their might-those same ma
hves whom he had often refrained,
partly from hygienic reason to be
sure, but whom he had nevertheless
refrained all the same from eating.
Oh, how he would have liked to have
one of them in his embrace just then!
How he would have loved to coil fondly
about him and gaze down into his
eyes as they gradually popped out of
their sockets!
But it was not to be-not then, at
least. 1t was the enemy's day, and
they made the most Of it Irresistibly
the furious anaconda was dragged to
hideous trap Of bamboo, into which
ne was thrust, writhing and reaching
IN vain for the waists of his torment
OFF. Then heavy canvas was wrapped
about him, and the canvas was wound
with fold after fold Of cord. And IN
this humiliating condition, a mere
bundle, in fact, one Of the most re-
spected members Of upper Amazon
snake society was slung on a pole and
carried miles on the shoulders OF ma
yves, whose ribs he could have crushed
with a single twist There the bundle
was put into . box. Q the top OF
which heavy stats were nailed, and
then, and only then, the cowardly
captors reached through and cut the
cords and the canvas aud transformed
the package into 4 prisoner.
As such prisoner, he was conveyed
across the ocean to the city Of New
York, and then and there transferred
for q valuable consideration to one