Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1846-04-09
A Snake Bit Erishmau.

A correspondent of the N. Y. Spirit of The
INES gives '' an original Tennessee hunting
incident" Iha. Twill pass" jolly parrv OF
sPortsmen, made up of veteran hunters rife for
sport and full of fun, were enjoying themselves
tor lew weeks in the mountains of Morgan
county, Tennessee. A huge, raw boned, 10.
quaclous lrlshman, uninvi,ed, quarered him
seh IN their camp, and in addition 10 being a
nuisance when awake, snored so terrifcally
when asleep as TO drive "tired natures sweet
restorer" from others. Pa, was afraid of snakes
generally, and loud snakes" in particular, and
The awful yarns he heard in the hunters camp
walked snakes" in every hair on the Irish
mans head After listening 10 tep yarns on
The much dreaded snake subject one evening,
This fresh son Of the sod prepared 10 turn in,
literally crawling all over. Counting his beads
and his chances for being 'snake biz" before
day, and "tucking in" his blanke. and wishing
the "sowls of all snakes, in these parts pur-
thckuler," in country where, to say The least,
they stand bu, slim chance for indulging in
their natural torpldiiy, he fell asleep. The
correspondent proceeds:
And now the storm began. His snoring
grew fast and furious, loud and long, occasion
ally sort of half snort, half grun,, terminating
with snakes, by jabers, blast their sowls -
:" Ush! ugh" when there came the variation or
chorus in The shape OF grind of his teeth that
threatened TO drive them through his jaw or
crush them TO powder; By way of variety he
would hold his breath few seconds, and then
snore again, and such snoring! my Stars, that
could spell ii II was a sort Of cross between
'he breathing OF an ashmaiic elephant and The
braying OF a superanua,ed donk ey, whose will
lasted longer than his wind. Well, it thus con-
tinued with the regularity OF The whippoor- wills
cry. until say an half hour before day-break,
when J. NJ. w. Jim w we'll saw whose
stock of patience had long ago erapora,ed, un-
rolled himself from his blanket, saying in his
usual quiet way, Humph I'll stop that infer
nal concert or start the maker of it, see if
don't. Umph!" He then awoke jim A. and
The Judge, when PLOT was laid and thus car
ried into execution.
w. goi his hunting knife, and going 10 where
The oTal OF large deer had been thrown, he
cui of about seven feet Of gut, and securing the
ends with twine TO retain the contents, he tied
one end of ii iigh, and fas, 10 the corner of
Paddy's shirt tail, that had wandered through
rinl" in the seat of his breeches, coiling il all
up smooth by his side, snake-like and true
All things thus arranged The conspirators laid
down again, and at The conclusion Of one of the
stage horn snores with the "snake sowls" va.
ration, Jim A. roared out a, The top of his voice,
HU WEE! Hu WEE! big copper headed
black rattle snake eleven feet long has crawled
up my breeches, and is Tying himself into a
doublebow knot round my body" giving the
Irishman, with every word, furious dig in The
side with his elbow. with a running accompani-
meni on his shins with iais heels OF course,
this hmling awoke him quick and wide; IT. his
first movement, he laid his hand on the nice
cold coil Ga, a, his side. Kissing out a "Jay-
zus" from between his clenched teeth, he made
bound that carried him some len feet clear of
The camp, and with force that Iraightened
ou, the coil and made The snakes tail crack
like cart whip.
Casting one wild blazing look behind, he tore
off with the rapidly of lightning around the
camp in circle of some forty feet across, and
al every bound shouting, or rather Yelling
SAGE i'm !! saze i'm by the tail Och howiy
Varsin, stop i'm. Och, Saint PaIhrick iare
i'm in till jablets! 4 wha! A wha Bate him
10 smilhereens wild gun, can't yees! He's
90, mo fast-howd me--! Och, he
has, BY iabers! an he's nsendin' his houh. wha
Och, ms:iher, he's forty fui long," On making
this circuit he ran through part of the smoul-
dcring campfire, and the lwine OF the aft of the
gu, caught FIRE; this brough, new terror, and
added strong inducement for him TO put on
more stear, and increase his rate; round
round he went, "He's fiery sarpini. Och.
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