It has been confidently asserted that a black snake of North America has the property of expanding itself to such a degree, that he has been known to swallow a bulk twice as big as his own.
    Our informant states that two of these reptiles having lately come in contact, and both feeling the same demands of appetite, the first assailant began on the tail of the other with so much vigour that he soon made his antagonist look about, who, believing in the doctrine of retaliation, began to pay him his own coin and thus they began mutually to swallow each other until a vestige of either was to be seen. I most sincerely wish that the contending parties of the day may not go and do likewise.
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