Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-17

ORUPUDDY PLAYED, AND MORE SOFTLY,
WITHOUT VARYING THE TUNE.
Orupuddy shambled up the veranda
steps with the awkward gait OF a child,
and approaching to within half dozen
feet OF the horsekeeper, began playing a
monotonous and plaintive air on the pipe.
The effect on the cobra was almost instan-
tapeous. With slight hesitation it glided
out from the blanket toward the musician,
irresistibly drawn, it seemed TO be. Oru-
puddy played on, more softly but without
varying the tune, keeping his eyes on the
serpent and swaying slightly to the music.
Half way between him and the reclining
man the cobra stopped and, raising its
head and third of it's body In an upright
position, began to initiate the swaying
motion. When the dwarf seemed to have
thol oughly charmed the snake, he care
fully withdrew his right hand from the
pipe, lingering the holes with the left, and
gradually bent over toward the reptile.
In a moment and like a flash his Olsen.
gagged hand had grasped the cobra just
below its head and he was down on his
knees struggling with it. The pipe being
dropped, Orupuddy drew the hOe-bladed
instrument from his girdle, placed the
sharp edge against the reptiles neck, as
he held it down on the verRnda, and pressed
so hard that the head fairly flew of. Dis
engaging the writing body from his neck
and arms, he threw it from the veranda.
Then he made low salaam TO Mr.. Hold
son and, still gTinning like monkey, as
sumed an expectant attitude. A quarter
OF rupee gave him almost a paroxvsm
of Joy, and after standing on his head to
more freely express his thanks, he thrust
the end of stick into the snakes jaws,
which closed convulsively with a snap,
and walked off. dragging the rest OF the
carcass by the tail, to burn the fangs and
poison sacs In the kitchen fire and brag Of
his exploit before the other servants.
Remedies were Immediately applied to
the still insensible kuthuraikarun, but IL
| was half an hour before consciousness
| returned, and not till week after had
the man emerged sufficiently from his
dazed condition to tell the story of his
frightful experience. He had left his home
to sleep on the Veranda, he said, so that
he might answer promptly when the dorsy
called in the morning. Along towards
aybreak, as well as he could Judge, he
had been awakened by something crawl
ing over him on the outside OF the blan-
ket. He felt from the gliding motion that
it was snake. and an unusually large
one, for the pressure was from his feet to
his arms, which were folded across his
breast, and was advancing upward. He
also knew that his safety lay only In
keeping perfectly quiet and conquered his
impulse to spring up. Before the snake
reached his face the indefinable odor
which comes from some venomods SER
penis revealed the identity of his unwel-
come companion, and soon the sickeniug,
suffOcating breath of the reptile played
upon his cheek and filled bis nostrils. He
feared, he said, that he might cry out and
struggle for self-control. Then came tenn
pnrary Inconsistencies, which probably
saved his life. When he recovered, a heavy
weight on his naked breast and arms told
him that the cobra, attracted by the
warmth, had made its bed there. 1t
seemed ages before the light came, and
when Hodson doray appeared he had tried
to whisper a warning, but had swooned
in feeling the serpent move again.