The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-08-07


the box and cleared for the woods This
created great deal of CONSERVATION in the
community, and all lay low until toward
evening, when the neighbors got together
and devised some means to put an end to
him. On close examination of the box
it was discovered that they had put de-
from one end to the other, and thus, when
the captive began to surge, he soon started
this plank, and was then able to break out
The hole in the ground was now securely
stopped, and every one present determined
and destroy him. They felt it necessary for
their safety. Strong bands, well armed,
went together and secured the woods, beat
the thickets, and searched closely every
where, until they began to despair of sue
cess. But when they least looked for it for
tune smiled upon their efforts. Some mile
and half or two miles from the den live a
Mr.. Isaac Nelly and Mr.. Irvine, close
neighbors. Yesterday morning, Mr.. Nelly
walked over to Mr. Irvines, carrying with
him his gun, an Enfield rifle. Finding
Mr.. Irvine in his field, nearly at the top of
the hill, at work, he called to him, and Mr..
Irvine and he seated themselves on the
fence, with their guns Qor no man went
without one) near them. Mr.. lryines was
a common squirrel rifle. They had talk
ed some time here when they became aware
of peculiarly musky odor pervading the
air They had felt it at first, but it did
not excite their attention until it became
sickening in its power Mr.. Nelly looked
around nconsciously to see what could
produce it, and there, within sixty yards of
them, and just above lay the serpent, the
object of their dread. Their first impulse
was to run, but after they had involuntarily
jumped from the fence they thought bet
ter of it, and like true men, as they are,
they determined to fire on it. They
laid their guns carefully on the fence, the
snake never moving, and taking deliberate
aim, fred at his head. At the crack of the
guns an awful crashing and slashing was
heard, and believing the awful creature
was upon them, they threw away their guns
and fed for dear life, nor did they stop I'M
til they reached the house.
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aftera good deal of careful accommodating
the spot was approached, to find the ser
pent gone, but, leaving behind him such a
great trail of blood, they knew he was bad
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