The door of the dining-room was open and the Teluga school-teacher was outside, when he became interested in a novel sight.

A frog was hopping along the front veranda, with an immense cobra chasing it.

The serpent struck at it repeatedly, but the fugitive, in its desperation, eluded each blow, giving utterance to pitiful cries, as a frog will do when pursued by a snake.
The end of the veranda reached, the frog leaped off, and the cobra dropped to the ground in hot pursuit, but a box, standing near, offered shelter.

The creature scrambled beneath, just in time to avoid another swift blow of the reptile, which was unable to follow it.

The cobra glided around the box, seeking some avenue by which to reach his victim, but, finding none, moved off in the grass and disappeared.
The teacher hurried into the dining-room, with the announcement of what he had seen.