Mrs.Wood has pinned him in my pocket so he won't come out again.

Do you know where I got that snake, Mrs.Wood ?" "No," she said; "you never told me." "It was across the river by Blue Ridge," he said.

"One day last summer I was out rowing, and, getting very hot, tied my boat in the shade of a big tree.

Some village boys were in the woods, and, hearing a great noise, I went to see what it was all about They were Band of Mercy boys, and finding a country boy beating a snake to death, they were remonstrating with him for his cruelty, telling him that some kinds of snakes were a help to the farmer, and destroyed large numbers of field mice and other vermin.

The boy was obstinate.