Archy Somerville : and other stories . ANOTHER SNAKE STORY A Boa Constrictor is a snakewhich lives in hot countries. He lives on hides and animals,and occasionally kills and swallows aman. A s:entleman in India, which is (23). ANOTHER SNAKE STORY. 25 one of the countries where this snakelives, had a fine bullock which hewas fattening to give a feast tosome of his friends. This bullock used to go out some-times into the fields and jungles tograze. I must tell you what a jun-gle is. In India there is a kind ofgrass that grows very high. This grass generally grows inbroad plains and swamps. There
Archy Somerville : and other stories . ANOTHER SNAKE STORY A Boa Constrictor is a snakewhich lives in hot countries. He lives on hides and animals,and occasionally kills and swallows aman. A s:entleman in India, which is (23). ANOTHER SNAKE STORY. 25 one of the countries where this snakelives, had a fine bullock which hewas fattening to give a feast tosome of his friends. This bullock used to go out some-times into the fields and jungles tograze. I must tell you what a jun-gle is. In India there is a kind ofgrass that grows very high. This grass generally grows inbroad plains and swamps. Thereare trees amongst it; and the grassand trees together make the jungle. Well, as I said before, this bul-lock fed in the jungle. One day hewas feeding; and he felt something 26 ANOTHER SNAKE STORY. on his back and looking round saw agreat Boa Constrictor winding itselfaround him. He bellowed aloud andran as fast as he could; but theBoas tail got twisted round a treewhen he was almost out of the jun-gle and there he held the bullockfast. His bellowing aroused the peoplein the neighborhood and just as theBoa was going to crush the bullockby tightening himself around him(for this is the way they kill theirprey,) the Boa fe
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