Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-08-30
The Snakes OF siidia.


ON impregnates the blood Is exempliticd
by the following story, told TO me years
ago as having occurred at Makablesh-
wur. A native gardener at work in a
garden at that place was bitten b
snake on ore of his fingers The man,
with great presence of mind and de-
termination. Immediately chopped off
the bitten finger with his garden knife.
But it was too late, the poison had al
ready passed up the hand beyond the
place of amputation, and the poor malice
died from the effects of the bite.
A party of friends were one evening
sitting at a whist table, some PLAYING.
others watching the game. One OF the
players happened TO look down on the
ground, and was Mortified by discover
ing . cobra coiied round one OF his legs.
What was to be done. To move was
certain death, and all that tile mar this
strangely shackled could do was to 81,
perfectly st,il and call the attention Of
his friends to his dangerous predicamcnt.
For any OF the rest Of the party TO have
Immediately attacked tie snake would
probably have been fatai TO their friend.
Bv what NAV be almost called inspira-
ton one Of the non-plavcrs rn;ctly left
thu room and ordered in basin ot l'i,lk,
which was gently pu. down on the
ground not far from the snake. y. a
few minutes, or perhaps only seconds,
which must have, however, appeared
an hour at least to the unhappy captive,
the cobra uncoiled himself and went off
TO the milk, and when once well away
from their companions leg, was, Of
course, very soon killed.
II may be objected that stake wo;:ld
not venture in among a number of peo-
pie in the way above described. How
then. would the directors account for
the danger run by a lady, whom could
name, cre evening in drawing ta.n!
full of people This lady was reaching
out her arm 10 draw a chair toward her
self, with the intention Of sitting down
on it, when a snake was observed on
the back thereof. How did the snake
get there II is very difficult TO tell
where snake will not be found, but
still more so to ascertain how and when
il reached the place of discovery.
Snakes are seid to ran away from
men, and if the soft football of the ma
tive does not scare them, the lordly
tread ii the booted European il sup
posed invariably to be too much tor
their nerves. and this doubtless is 80 "a
a rule. But We know that there Is no
rule without an exception, and snakes
are very excerticnal animals. vas
walking one eserlrs with friend near
Pan Fir, at the foot of the Neal $
Tongue Hill, on the other side OF Som
bay harbor. NV friend had great
horror Ct snakes. and vas tatliet given
at times to seeing them where they did
not ealSt. As We were walking along
the country road. my companion, who
had no walking slick or otter weapon
with him, suddenly iumped back with a
hasty Here's snake Nonsense, }
said |, "you are always seeing snakes .
In another mcrert cctrs, with his
hood expanded. put has head over the
side OF The road, preparatory apparent
ly to crossing ii. On seeing US, how
ever, he seemed DESTROYS 10 shun nearer
Acquaintance, and glided back into the
gutter. luckily had stick, to which
Spectacle" som succumbed. He was
the largest cobra have ever killed.
crce, when out shooting across the
harbor stepped over live snake.
Rad M. rr and missed e >rire, and had
marked him dowr Id some long grass
rot far of from where | was standing,
| was y aiking back with nv ewes fixed
1T the rsace where I had seen the bird
settle 10 nave another SHOT at hir
Something on the ground caught The
corner of nv eve a. ! was thus en-
gagged, ard inst;nc.:veiy made long
step ever the object, and then turned
and looked down sc-see wha, it was. 1,
vas q snake. With thought at the mo-
merit was desA, from rs net moving.
To make quite sure. | touched Asm with
the muszle Of nv gun. when he gave a
convulsive stan end disappeared 80 rap
idlv into the grass which bnrdered lie
path on which be had been lying ihss