THE SNAKE AND THE EGGS

 

GENTLEMAN living in Rhodesia tells, in one of the newspapers, a wonderful story of some eggs that were hatched after having been swallowed by a large snake. The reptile,- a fine specimen of the banded cobra somehow got into a hen-house, where an old hen was sitting on a number of eggs. The hen, with much cackling and bustle, flew off in terror, and the snake proceeded to devour the whole of the eggs. The owner of the hen-house, hearing the bird's cries, came up and shot the reptile as it was resting after its meal; and when the creature was cut open, immediately after, it was found that nine of the eggs having been swallowed, whole still remained unbroken. They were taken out. rinsed with warm water, and put back in the nest. The hen at once began to sit again, as if nothing had happened, and in a short time the eggs were hatched, the chickens proving quite healthy and unharmed by the strange experience of their early homes.

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No L CHATTERBOX  No 50 New Series 1903 Weekly One Halfpenny