JUST AS HE SUPPOSED.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9190, 18 September 1891, Page 4

JUST AS HE SUPPOSED.

11 During the Florida War," said one of a party of non-commissioned, officers, " I pas in the American army. , One day I shouliered my gun, and went in 'search ol game. In passing through ,a swamp I s,aw .something a few feet ahead of me, lying upon ;the ground, which had every appearanoeof a log, it being about forty- feet in length, and nearly a foot in diameter. So positive was I that it was nothing but a log that I paid no attention to it ; the fact is I would have sworn before a court of justice' that it was a log, and nothing else. You fjeo I never heard of snakes growing to snob huge dimensions, and, the fact is I never should have believed it if > Iha 4. Well, between me and the log,_ as I took it to be, was a miry place, whioh it was necessary for me to avoid. I therefore placed the butt of my gun on the ground before me, and springing upon it, lit right on top of— what do you suppose ?" < "A boa oonstriotor," said one. I " *fo." " What then could it have been ?" asked another. " Just what I supposed," said the wag, " a log."