South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-13

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pel1ais held throughout India, and tht
almost instant death which invariably
| follows its bite, he will in some degree
be able to imagine what my feeling.
were at the moment; a faint kind o
disgusting sickness pervaded my who's
frame, as felt the clamnny fold of the
reptile tightening round my neck. / still
held the throat, but to hold it much
longer would have been impossible
Immediately beneath my grasp there
was an inward working OF the skin,
which seemed to be assisted by the We
ry firlnness with which I held tiny
hand was gloved. Finding.in defiance
Of my efforts, that my hand was each
instant forced nearer to my face, an i
de-. struck me that were it in my pow
er to transfx the mouth with some
sharp instrument, it would prevent the
reptile from using bis fangs should he
escape my hold. My gun lay at my
feet The ramrod appeared the very
thing required, which with some diff
Guilty i succeeded in drawing out, iav-
ing only one hand discnSaged. My
right arm was now trembling from over
exertion, and my hold becoming less
firm, when / happily succeeded il
passing the rod thro' the lower jaw up
to its centre. It was not without con-
siderable hesitation that | let go my
hold of the throat, and seized the rod in
beth hands, al the same time, By bring
ing them over my head by sudden
jerk, l disengaged the fold from my
neck, which had latterly become al
most tight enough te produce stran-
gulation. There was then little diff
Guilty in freeing my right arm, and Ill
timately to throw the reptile from me
to the earth, where it continued to twist
and wrythe itself into thousand con-
tortions ofrage and agony. TO run to
aneighboring stream to lave my neck,
hands and face in It's cooling water, was
my first act after despatching my fer
mida5le enemy. This concludes a
true, though a plainly told tale. AS
moral, it may prove, that when o man
is possessed Of determination, GOODNESS,
and energy, combined with reason, he
will generally come off triumphant,
though he may have to circumvent the
subtlety of the snake, Or combat the te-
rocity of the tiger.
Lofty Language for l0ac!y Ears.--A
general of militia, who received his
commission as many do, more in virtue
Of his rank in society, than from any a.
bility to command, thus addressed his
men in buckram; holding SCOTS Tao
tics in one hand, and Blair's Rhetoric
in the other: "The commissioned Off
GERS will SIMULTANEOUSLY advance
four PAGES in front-forward, march! !"
Upon this ragged plebian, "tar or the
left, unseen the while" broke out, with,
General, "Simoa 1Engly telled me to
tel! YOU as how he could not come till
he cotch his horse!"
Train up q Chile, S.c.-=-One ofthe grea-
test mistakes in parental government Is
that of frightening children into sub
mission. A correspondent Of the Old
Colony Memorial gives the following
as his experience on this head: "At
the early age eff eight years, | was sent
from home to live with the brother OF
NV father. When I was sent after the
cows, or on an GRAND, my uncle and
his wife told me if | did mt go directly,
without playing by the way, the bears
would catch me. After stopping few
times and finding myself unhurt, ! bid
defiance to bears. They next told me
about the devil. They next told me
about the devils imps.
This had the desired effect for short
time. But I soon began to have my
doubts about their devil, that they talk
ed SO much about. I thought if they
would lie about the bears, they would
about the devil. lido notsuppose they
meant to he exactly-for they were We
ry respectable, religious people-but
they meant to fiji my head full of scare
crow stories to keep me, as they SAID,
from being bad boy
There are too many at this day, who
bring up their children in the same
way.
"Mother, where is the State Of Wed
lock? il amt in my geography" sad a
l;ttle Girl about ten years old. mo,
my dear" said the old woman; 1T Is
between Justice and Divinity, IN the
valley of Contentment & Prosperity
II Distinctios,.-"Sir, do you meap
to say lie" said person to a frenen
gentieman, "No sare, say not oa'
You LIE, but sare, | say dat you walk
round about the truth.