The Sun, a few days ago, had an editorial article about a reported theft of a box containing four large boa-constrictors.

The text must be here erroneous, as two paces, or ten feet, will scarcely suffice in describing the boa constrictor, sometimes near thirty feet long.

Dreaming, towards morning, that he was engaging a large boa-constrictor in single combat, and struggling energetically to restrain the ferocious reptile from getting into his boots, he had suddenly awakened, with a crash, upon the floorto miss his umbrella and nephew, to forget where he had put them, and to fly to Gospeler's Gulch with incoherent charges of larceny and manslaughter.

"I suppose I shall wake up some morning and find a boa constrictor in my bed.

One heave and a wriggle means a boa-constrictor, two heaves and a growl a tigerand so on.