The ways of those who try to deal in facts is hard and makes one understand the greater celebrity of the romanticism A few days ago we published a story of a lady who said she had been attacked by a snake nine feet long in the swimming pool at Mokanshan. This story was told to one of the staff by the lady herself, and the only comment we would make on it (im view of subsequent events) is that any one of us who met a large snake when swimming might be forgiven for not being quite whether the snake was run-om him or he from s e. Tfowever, the hotel manager at Mokanshan disliked the whole story and wrote to say that it was all an embroidery on the fact of a dead snake having been found some distance from the swimming pool. But now comes another correspondent who writes from Mokanshan that a snake was certainly found in the pool when the water was Ict off. very much alive and wriggling, hut it was only seven feet long and never attempted to bite anyone, least. all " representative of a "prohibition" country. With the utmost deference to all our correspondents, we begin to think with new sympathy of judges, whose work in life has been described as holding a balance between "the liar, the d—d liar and the expert witness."
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