Madison, July 28—Mrs. B.B. Graham of near town is authority for the snake story which follows: Recently Mrs. Graham heard a commotion in a chicken coop wherein she had a number of fryers fattening, and hastened to investigate, finding one chicken lying on his back and fanning the air with his feet. Without stopping to observe closely, Mrs. Graham reached in and drew the struggling fowl out. And although she had been feeding the chickens on the fat of the farm, the weight of this particular individual astonished her.
When she had drawn him outside, therefore, she took a good look to find the reason of this excess avoirdupois. One look was quite enough. Embracing the chicken was one of the biggest black snakes Mrs. Graham had ever seen. Very soon the chicken was dropped and help called for. Mrs. Graham’s son came and killed the reptile.
After it had been killed, the snake was stretched out and measured and found to be five feet long. It had wrapped itself around the chicken in order to kill the fowl preparatory to swallowing it, it is assumed.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Wednesday, July 29, 1925
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