Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-17
A sNAKE.BIT IRIsHMAN,

The New York Spirit of the Times
relates very good story, which, di-
vested of redundancies, amounts to
the following:
"a party of gentlemen in Tennes-
see, among whom were Judge A.,
one James W., and a certain Jas.
A., having gone upon deer hunt
were greatly annoyed by q sort of
Irish Jeremy Diddler who quartered
himself in their camp and bored them
by day with his idle vaunting, and,
at night, drove sleep from their tent
with the drone of his nasal pipe.-
Patrick entertained o mortal dread
of snakes, and, one of the party de-
termined to take advantage of his
national prejudice, with q view of
getting rid OF his company. Accord
ingly, one night, when he was sound
a-snOring," perhaps dreaming of
snakes, the mischievous gentleman,
$50 the story runs) got his hunting
knife, and going where. the Offal of u
large deer had been thrown, cut off
about seven feet of the intestines,
and secured the ends with twine to
retain the contents; tied one end of
them fast and tight to corner of
Paddy's linen, that had wandered
through "rint" in his "Oh-no-we-
never-mention-em's," coiled it all up
smoothly by his side, snake-like and
true. All things thus arranged, the
conspirators lay down again, and at
the conclusions of one of the stage
horn snOres, the same gentleman
roared at the top of his voice. "HU-
WEE! HU-wEE! A big cOpper-h head.
ed black rattle-snake, eleven feet long
has crawled up my trowsers and Is
tying himself INTO double -bOw-knOt
round my bodyW giving the Irish
man, with every word, furious dig
In the side with his elbow, with a
running accompaniment on his shins
with his heels! or course, all this
noise and hurting awoke him quick
and wide; in his first movement he
laid his hand on the nice cold coil at
his side. Kissing out "Jaysus ~ from
between his clenched teeth, he made
u bound, that carried him some ten
feet clear of the camp, and with a
force that Strengthened out the coil
and made the snakes tail crack like
a cart-whip! Casting one wild blaz.
ing look behind, he tore off with the
rapidity of lightning around it in IA
circle of forty feet across, and, at
every bound, shouting, or rather yell
ling, "Saze i'm, saze i'm by the tail {!
Oh, howly Vargin, stop i'm. Och,
Saint Patrick! tar him in till jabletts!
A wha! u wha! he's got me fast
howld! och he has; by Sabetts! an
he's mend his hould. Otch, murth-
er! Howly Vargin gentlemen, take
how'd iv i'm shoot him shoot him
in the tail eend?"
During this scene the Judge stood
hugging sappling with both arms
and one leg, his bead thrown back,
emitting scream after scream; Jim
w. lay on his back, with his feet
against a tree, uttering scream for
scream with the Judge. All sounds
at all like ordinary laughter, had
ceased, and the present notes would
have rendered immortal the vocal
fame ofa dozen panthers accompanied
in their concert by the fog whistle of
a steamboat. Jim A.-fat Jim-stood
with his legs about yard apart, his
hands on his lips, shouting at inter-
walls of about five seconds, "Snake !!
Snake:
SNAKE!!! at the same intonation,
but so loud that the tchoes mocked
each other from fifty crags, "Snake |!
Snake ~ reverbrated loud and long
among those mountain slopes, while
his eyes carefully and closely follow
ed the course OF poor paddy round the
camp. After running round ii about
thirty times, the prosecuted one flew
Off In a tanget into the woods, and
the medley Sound of snake muir
ther! help! fire, Howly Vargin |"
&C., gradually died away In the dis
tance, and the hunters were alone.
Umph," said Jim W., (after stop
ping his laughing hiccough,) "umph,
i thought that snake would stop
snoring In this camp, at least |!
Umph." The next evening the Pat
lander was seen travelling at mighty
rate through Knoxville, with u small
bundle under one arm, and huge
shelalah in the other, poked ahead Of
him in u half defensive, half-explor-
ing attitude. When he was hailed
by Archy Mo, with, Which
way, Paddy ?" casting round at the
speaker "a sort OF hang-dog, sulky
glance, he growled forth, a word at a
step, "Strate to Ireland, by Jaysus,
where there's no snakes !"
The ehronicler of this truly ludl-
crous incident, concludes with the
remark: "You cannot say snake
To either member of the party yet,
without its costing q set Of vest but
tons, or producing stitch in the
side.'n
AN Irishman who was found gull;