<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416117" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Snake and Potato Bug</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A TRUE TALE.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Can such things be and overcome us like a summer cloud, <br>without our special wonder, '-SHAKESPEAR.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In a grocery store in Ingersoll our attention was called to a copper-headed<br>snake wriggling in a glass jar. We noticed a peculiarity about its head, but<br>soon found out it was a potato bug, which was afraid of being drowned ; and<br>the only above water being the snake's head and neck, it was fondly clinging<br>thereto. There being 'no jutty-frieze buttress or coigne of vantage, where it<br>could make its pendant bed, elsewhere.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some poets they abroad do roam,<br>But we find themes are near to home ;<br>As we do seldom travel far,<br>This is a song of a glass jar.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Snake of species of the copper,<br>And on its head there was live hopper,<br>For we saw that funny sight<br>In a store, it was last night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There in water was a snake,<br>And a bug so wide awake;<br>He was afraid that he would drown<br>So he clomb up on the snake's crown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This snake it is near a foot long, <br>Which doth suffer this great wrong, <br>It thinks the bug wants it to throttle<br>This makes it wriggle in the bottle.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But fondly the kind hearted bug,<br>It doth its preserver hug, <br>For the bug when on the water<br>It is only but a squatter.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And hath taken up homestead<br>On the top of the snake's head, <br>And on the waters it doth float<br>Safe and happy on this boat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+McIntyre">James McIntyre</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416117" data-title="Snake and Potato Bug de James McIntyre" data-description="A TRUE TALE. 'Can such things be and overcome us like a summer cloud, without our special wonder, '-SHAKESPEAR. In a grocery store in Ingersoll our attention was called to a copper-headed snake wriggling in a glass jar. We noticed a peculiarity..."></div> </div> </div>

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