April 9, 1910.] 
FOREST AND STREAM 
565 
IN THE' SALON DAK BUNGALOW. 
Once while traveling from Simla to Umballa, 
1 chanced to stay one night at the Solon Rest 
House, and met there a railway official named 
Higgins, who was’in charge of some works in 
the neighborhood and made the Dak Bungalow 
his temporary headquarters. Higgins had a 
pet monkey, a pretty little red thing called 
Baloo, which took a great fancy to a friend 
who was traveling with him named Martin, 
who played with her and gave her nuts and 
other toothsome morsels. Martin had great 
humming powers, which the monkey seemed to 
appreciate. She would sit on his lap while he 
hummed, placing one hand one each side of 
his face and looking into his eyes with a most 
comical expression. Bed time arrived and 
Martin and I shared a room. We left the win¬ 
dow open and the light burning. The lamp 
stood on a small table near Martin’s bed, which 
was next the open window. My bed was in 
the corner. I soon dropped off to sleep, but 
after some time I was roused by the. sound of 
humming coming from Martin’s corner. On 
my attempting to throw a slipper at him an 
object met my eye. which made me pause and 
hold my breath. There, near the bed stood the 
light, burning dimly as we left it, and on 
Martin’s chest, its head raised and swaying 
from side to side, with its hood expanded, law 
a large cobra. It had evidently crawled into 
his bed for warmth and aroused him, and he, 
knowing that snakes are influenced by certain 
kinds of music, had, with extraordinary pres¬ 
ence of mind, thought of this expedient to keep 
it from attacking him. There he lay unable to 
stir, humming a low plaintive tune, a weird air 
in the major key, while the snake kept time to 
it. A stranger spectacle it would be hard to 
conceive, and I lay there fascinated. 
How long I sat like this, not daring to move 
for fear of disturbing the reptile, I cannot say. 
but at last the suspense came to an end. A 
small figure jumped on to the window sill. 
Baloo, attracted, I suppose, by the humming, 
had come to listen. She paused a moment, 
peering into the corner from which the sound 
came. She was behind the snake, so that the 
latter could not see her. The little creature 
seemed to take in the situation instinctively, 
and with two cat-like bounds and a guttural 
snort she had grasped the cobra from behind, 
close to the head, and buried her sharp teeth 
in its back. The monkey and snake rolled over 
on to the floor. The struggle did not last long. 
The cobra, weakened by repeated bites and 
unable to get at her, relaxed its coils and soon 
lay on the floor, bleeding much, while Baloo 
slipped on to the bed where Martin lay and' 
perched itself on his pillow, and thus ended 
v/hat might have been a dreadful tragedy.— 
Madras Mail. 
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