The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-08-01

! heads backward and forward Tor II rev
minutes he raised his hands above their
heads and slowly made them descend
| till they rested on the snakes heaus'
| He then stro1ed them gently on the
| back Of their necks, speaking an the
| time in the most endearing Oh Hlluu-
staui terms. The serpents appeared
spelbound. They made no eitort 10 re-
sent the liberty, but remained quite
| still with heads uplifted, and seemed 70
rather enjoy it. Presently his hands
| would descend down the necks, ABOUT
three inches below the heads, his nm
| gers would close loosely ROUND the
necks, and he would lift them or the
| ground and place them on his Shoul-
| ders The looseness OF the grip ap-
peared to be the main secret Inc
snakes, being in no way hurt, would
then slowly crawl through his fingers
and wind themselves round his neck,
| his shoulders and his arms. they APP
peared to realize that no harm was to
| be done them, and they made no fur
| Their effort to resent the handllnF lie
| would pick them gently off one arm
and place them on the other, and, IN
fact, stroke them and pet them as II
| they had been a pair of harmless
| worms
On one occasion he made the onlook-
ers' blood curde by taking UP large
black cobra by the neck and placing Its
head toward his open mouth. The I'm
| clnation of these snakes Is to crawl
| quietly out Of sight into the f1rst hole
| they can find, and so the reptile began
to crawl into his mouth. He waited his
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his teeth firmly on the serpents head
| This, it is needless to say, was Violent
" resented by the snake, but it was
| powerless for harm. and could only
show it's Indignation by desperate wrig-
Cling of its body, while the man main
tanned a firm grip of its head between
his teeth, at the same time letting both
| hands drop to his side. After a few
seconds the seized the snake firmly by
| the neck and released its head from be-
| tween his teeth.
He never had the smallest difficulty
or hesitation in SELLING any cobra by
the tail.
A cobra when thoroughly reused to
| anger is by no means the same gentle
creature as those have just described,
which allowed the man to handle them
with impunity. He is now most for
midable beast to approach, striking out
desperately at every moving thing
| within and even out of his reach. But
| even in this condition Kullan had no
| difficulty in Selling the largest of CO.
| bras He would hold up and shake
rag in his left hand On this the infu-
rated reptile would rivet its gaze
| With his right hand, from behind, the
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