Nearly Swallowed a Snake

Montreal, Aug 6.- Alode Boucher, of Chaboilles got up during the night to take a drink of water. He went tot he tap in the dark, and had just put the cup to his lips when he felt something tickle his mouth. He seized the object with his fingers and threw it to the floor. He was horrified at finding that he had narrowly escaped swallowing a small snake five inches long, which had come up through the water pipe.

source: The Daily Chronicle
location: Marshall, Michigan