The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-08-09
GREAT SNAKES!
They Pull In Githens's Kitchen Floor anA
IIo Abandons tho House to Then.
From IA. Thiicdr'phia Record.

Lambertville, n. j.; and its environs swarm
vi h snakes. Eut the uncanns experien Of
mG la the Te Post Ss Once .1 s.ve
thsy are S ts r ssT
Citizens ,sioyI.l at the ia Lambsltyie
h. told hi- story the listeners eyed him.
The house he calls hls home Is . rude log
. garrett. Ii, stands back from tue country
road In rocky field. 1t is a rough shanty. full
onier The stone steps In front and reaches np
toward the dian!daied window sills Thors IL
sp nsr Of Goa. we or nut
The inrmer and Ills wife have seen snakes In
sSS s:1oIS ~ s ss%s,I;
ens began TO tell her husband OF various ar
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the pans; eggs aid butter taken bodily away:
q, a strange way. The things were generally
missed in tie m"rring bui not always: Thieves
ipg back and forth lii onch The county. and
Mr.. Citizens laid the sundry robberies ut
In handns l.; He Lay in wait nights when 10
| peared. and tho farmer gave 1t up MS q bail Job
enough to give the couple much worry. but tie
thievinG went on ms tho weeks passed.
TSs fFss o5fy % hsl Sio .d
ha5 tS n ,hs tS s s.rasn
lion. nnL went on will! the meal. Som AFTER
2,hslnck the farmer lett The house and walked
700 yards on 10 tho barn. whero lie y a. getting
the ip on not . long ntterw.rd BY wild sh!iok
sp1Ssr. lie Hurried ,owa,d her: '.' A''
M lad s r Ms s"na Gso on:
and looking down the ricEo,y STAIRWAY to the
Or four feet across. Without waltins to in.
v9Hsssa 'as 81 ay s.n floor
Citizens got a lima benn poie from tho yard,
sovyn, or eisht ,eot long md shovel It down
Ing back rom tho nige lest tho earth should
further crunbe he reached tho rod down six
by a muscular hand down below. moved and
twistod about and was finally wrenchsd FROM
;. He started back and his vito screamed,
Things were serious, enough to make q call
ns ssnas we 4's od e. 94Essf sDd
TSe %qis %ss%wsI!s nd Ss:ss%s bigger
II It's lsscent it reys.lsl some ,sor! Of he ia
and is RVS thrown down the black hole.
And then the lhreo mon saw q sight that
ma 10 them sick with fright, The whole bot
tom o! the cEasm was ore hristnnR bed nf
snakes smooth. shining black, st0Ec.. The
reptiles were of every lie. A hiE head with
or n jaws and darling forEed tongue. was
r,Itel, ~ above i spYirmins hear ,ii,at must
MOand in ma Ont through his folds wero
scuios OF baby sunkes from six inches 10
Tires feet long. The VIII, IL earth seemed
TO be wriggling. AID the parry threw them
selves backward from the place. They took
bu, one look more. and that was enough Tie
whole house. it was evident would soon DO
overrun with hs horde, and Farmsr GiiLens
and h,swfe moved away to n neiGhbor's.
since Friday noon thny have not set foot near
the worse Than haunted spot No one will ap-
preach the laco Lyon The men folk arc afraid
But Mr. Citizens now knows that the den oi
wntche! or mnny weeks. The reptiles had
c!"nnei ont tre bin hole nm Ter tn" house malls
2 n"s' - +. an ,hen, p,eye Tor loo on he
h.rs hat m ,!e - WIN me butter and eggs;
the f'-sn mulk from Mrs Gilhens's pa, !. 1t |
WIS probably the snakes, too, thai seized and
carried on tho dog set 10 watch for robbers
api dragged hin, down into the hole beneath.
Mr.. Citizens swears 10 will never return to
his rickety house,