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A True Tale / "Can such things be and overcome us like a summer cloud, without our special wonder."
Shakespeare / In a grocery store in Ingersoll our attention was called to a copper-headed snake wriggling in a glass jar. We noticed a peculiarity about its head, but soon found out it was a potato bug, which was afraid of being drowned; and the only above water being the snake's head and neck, it was fondly clinging thereto. There being "no jutty-frieze buttress or coigne of vantage, where it could make its pendant bed, elsewhere."