The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-12-29
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THE sNAKE-BTr FRESHMAN.

A correspondent of the New York
Spirit of the times gives "an original Ten
nessee Hunting Incident" that twill
pass" A jolly party fsportsmen, made
up Of veteran hunters, ripe for sport and
full of fun, were enjoying themselves for
few weeks in the mountains Of Morgan
county, Tennessee. A huge boned
loquacious Irishman, ,uninvited quartered
himselfin their camp, and in addition to
being nuisance when awake, snored so
terrifcalIy when asleep as to drive tired
natures sweet restorer" from others
Pat was afraid of snakes generally, and
"ould snakes" in particular, and the aw-
ful yarns he heard in the hunters camp
"waked snake" in every hair on the Irish
mans head. After listening to fcac
yarns on the much dreaded snake sub
ject one evening this fresh son of the sod
prepared to turn IN, literally crawling all
over Counting his beads and his chan
ces of being "snake, bit" before day, and
tucking in" his blanket and wishing the
"sowls of all the snakes in these parts in
partickular." in country where TO say
the least they would stand but slim
chance for indulging in natural torpidi-
ty, he fell asleep. The correspondent
proceeds:
And now the storm began. His sno-
ring grew fast and furious, loud and long;
occasionally SORT ofhalf snort, halfgrunt
terminating with snakes by jabers blast
their sowls!" ugh! ugh!' when there
came the variation or chorus in the shape
of grind of his teeth, that threatened to
drive them thro' his jaw or crush them to
powder by way of variety he would hold
his breath afew seconds and then snore
again, and such snoring! my stars, that |
could spell it! 1t was a sort of cross be-
tween the breathing of an asthmetic ele
phant and the braying!o superannuated
donkey, whose willlasted longer than his
wind. "WelI, it thus continued with the
regularity of the whippor willis coy, un-
til say half an hour before day break,
when !. M. w. (Jim w, we'll soy,) whose
stock of patience had long ago evapora-
ted unrolled himself from his blanket,
saying in his usual quiet way, "Humphl
Ill stop that internal 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 carried into exc
cution.
He got his hunting knife and going to
where the ofd of large deer had been
thrown, he cut off about seven feet of gut
and securing the ends with twine to re-
tain the contents, he tied one end of it
tight and fast to a corner of Paddy's shirt
tail that had wandered through "rint"
in the seat of his breeches, coilng it all
up smooth by his side, snake like and
true. All things thus arranged, the con
spirators laid down again, and atthe con-
clusion of one of the stagehorn snores
with the "snakes sowls" variation, Jim A.
roared out at the top of his voice "H1
wee! H3 weel A big opper-headed
black rattle. snake, eleven feet long, has
crawled up my breeches and is tying
hmselfnto double bow knot round my
body!' giving the Irishman, with every
word, furious dig in the side with his
elbow, with runnig accompaniment on
his shins with his heels! Of course, this
hurting awoke him quick and wide; in his
first movement he laid his hand on the
nice cold coil ofgu at his side.-Hisslng
out "Jayzus" from between his clench,
ed teeth, he made bound that carried