Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

A young lady of Johnstown, N. Y., while bathing at Chautauqua Lake, had a bad experience. A snapping turtle caught her by the ear. Her screams brought friends to her assistance, or she would certainly have been drowned; but the turtle’s grip was like a bull-dog’s, and after his head had been cut off it took ten minutes to pry the jaws apart. It will take a good deal of the poetry out of bathing in Chautauqua Lake. Sharks at Long Branch and Coney Island, and snapping-turtles at Chautauqua are not soothing to the nerves of timid bathers.