Monstrous Serpent

Many years ago, in the early days of the railway, a Highlander with cattle from the wilds of Loch Hourn, saw, afar off, and for the first time in his life, a railway train crossing the country and then plunging, with a shriek of its steam whistle, into a tunnel, and vanishing from his sight. On his return home, he described with awe the strange sight he had seen, a monstrous serpent crossing the fields, but, when it saw him, giving the most awful squeal he had ever heard in his life, and hurrying away
into a hole in the side of a hill.

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