The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1846-02-26
From the New York Spirit of The Times.
4 SNAKE-BIT FRESHMAN.

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A SNAKE-BIT FRESHMAN. !
AN ORIGINAL TENNESSEE - aNo INCIDENT.
lis s'Ai5anseer'' w6ul4.say, "one gran,
Imaenideuey pretty good deer lluni crime Oh
a few weeks since IN the mountains sot Nlur-
gan ceuqeYs elena, The paEy-inade up
Of The best materi is consisted Of Judge
A. - J. M ", J. A. and
some OF 3 veteran hunicis, rife for sport
and full oflun. AS my object is not 70 gyeI
delaied account of the hunt, bur only one
Of lis incidents, shall content myself with
merely saying, that after four days 'hanl.
Eihe 3 gentlemen named returned with 20
pair oi hams and divers specimens DISMAL
Ter fry. j. A---Sllled fine buck at
/ $50 yards of hand, sho oiing at the head and
Uniting il Judge A--(an ardent sports
man aud splendid rifle --slIoD also killed a
''loag law'' Bat a truce for this, and now
for the incident. s=. 5, s,7.
As every day hath its night and every
rose IFS thorn, so this nirihlul party had lis
E"pesf' in The shape OF a hugh raw-boned To-
quacions lrshman, who, uninViled, had quar-
g. lGESN~ HtitSCli III NaAilIt bOhlNtbS uIlO
lodging at the expense OF The crowd aud con
irving IN countless WAYS 10 render himself
a Nuisance when awake, and when asleep
s accomplishing The same praise worthy end
without any conlriyance. at all--lt being a
lhatulal Gift, and used by the possessur with
lmosl toftnenling effect. The mcn Snored,
land horc he snored, will presently appear;
suffice to say more sunmiAiga,ed nuisance
was never abated in more summary man
ner.
They soon learned byhis conversation and
behavior thai he whs afraid ofsnakes gener-
ally, and "ouId suakesn in particular, indeed,
: think that the sequal variants the bold as
r seri;on thai he would have given long odds
in favor Of Stack Creek gouging, rather
Than face Is inch Hm0ccasin with Shells
on his tai, as he termed ralIles. The man
! had hoagd some awful snake yarns or tales
q since his laciRg fbe sod; this was evident
: from The morbid dread. yes, horror, be fell Of
/. crawling tribe Well, with The Queen OF
Sheba MCKNIGHT triely say that "thehalfhad
not been told him. alter nights experience
-. at hunters camp in tennessee.
On the second night ofhis intrusion he
m de himself more than usually welcome,
! by .'getiiug, sir, somewhat sir, shot Pas Tom
TurTay said when an ounce of lead took up
its lodgings ia the "lork' of his breeches.
. thinking al lead can no doubt, that il had
more ro0nlAhere than in the powder bed oil
an old brass boring iron. He told very
: long dry yarns, all having more or less re-
i, more bearing on his own proweSs Of skill, and
q more than once nsInualed desire 10 make
demonstration, by having the use Of the
k skull of"onny .jintiemin present, and a tlrC
e foot thorn. for .jist ninis!!' Well, all thi:
l. wasv very pleasant,a and have odoHbt penectl;
= satisfactory, so far as lie individually WIS
a concerned, bat with his hearers it was quite
E different Thing; yet still they endured il
5 but The cup Of patience was nearly full, and
: that night overfiowed, bearing off on its boil
< ing current; the .'cause" Of the -'Iise," TO re
c gions far away and unknown. After he ha,
'e weaied himself with his blather, and show
n ed symptoms of turning in, jim A. tol(
him fer yarns bearing on the much dread
ed'snake subject, and particularly on their
1size, variety, and amabe temper in thos
puts dwelling atlehgth upon their dpparen
sncial disposition, assumed only with fell in
tent TO those whose nearer acquaintance
oh hey sought This evidently did not sill wei
be on the excited stomach of this pugnaciou
splig olshllalab, as was manifested by tn
a inFiive aud uneasy glances he ever and ano
IS cast at his banker and '.Iocation'a Bat be
Time came, and after re cannoitorinahi ssleeI
ing ground he projected 10 count his bead
4 aud the chances OF being "snak btu bcfnr
day, then sucking inv his blanket and wisi
ing the Sorls 90 all snakes in these par
in pdTthicalar,' in country where, to sa
,c The very least, they would have but Il slir
ir. chance for INDUCING in their natural torpid
ed ty, he fell asleep.
OF And now the storm began. His snorin
ne grew fast and furious, loud and long; Gee;
x sionaliy sort oil half snort half grunt, te
he minated with "snake by jabers. blast he
sowls! ugh! ughn' when there came the vi
:, ration or chorus in the shape of a grind
s The teeth that threatened to drive them thr
5, his jaw or crush them TO powder; by the ";
10 OF variety he would hold his breath few Sc
q onds and then snore ag-in, and such snortin!
5. my stars, the could spell ii! 1t was a SO
ST OF Cross between The breathing of an astIim5
nd ic elepant and the braying of supetannui
is ed donkey, whose will lasted longer than
ND ND wind. Well, il thus continued with there
nj. uiarity of the -poor-wili's coy I'm
ots say half an hour before day break, when
'i'- W., (Jin w. wen say whose stock of =
- tience had long evaporated, unrolled hms,
- from his blanket, saying in quiet wa
Humph, iii stop that internal concert
l.