The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-24

and. with a pull altogether, !" they strained,
and with delight both saw they were sue
cessfuL
May came up out Of the hole and sank
fainting 20 the ground AS Fay turned 10
help her she was Mortified to see the heads
OF several vicious and angry looking rat
tiers emerge from the hole, and their loud
rattlers were echoed from several points
around them in the forest. Hastily catching
up her sister, with a superhuman strength
that she was surprised at afJerward, Fay
carried her fainting and helpless sister off
out of the threatened danger. Soon, under
her energetic treatment, Nav opened her
eyes with a shudder, but as she heard the
/ loud Kisses Of the serpents that had escaped
out of the hole and saw their horrible as
! pect, she screamed out loud in her fright.
| Fay proved the heroine of the occasion,
and, getting her sister on her feet, she
managed to get her up on tall pine stump
that stood some five or six feet above the
ground, as she saw that it was impossible
TO carry May off in her present unnerved
condition.
As the girls scrambled up on the stump
out Of present danger, the angry ratings
OF the snakes became very startling, and
their vicious Kissing made the girls shudder
In spite OF their present safe quarters. The
snakes became more and more angry as
their numbers increased, and they began
surrounding the stump on which the two
girls now covered, praying for help. and
ever and anon shouting for aid. The sound
OF their voices plainly angered the rattlers.
and they soon presented a solid ring around
the stump. They would crawl up as near
as possible, and then coil up and strike at
the imprisoned girls, but always falling
back with Kisses Of rage and venom.
One OF the largest managed TO hit the top
part OF the stump and his fangs held him
there moment, but May, with a quick
movement, arose to her feet and stamped
on his head, completely crushing it. His
squirming body fell back among the others,
and the long body thrashed around in their
midst, till. aroused TO their utmost fury by
this disturbance, which they did not seem
to understand, the others fell on the diving
reptile and bit him time and again. One Of
the hercest made a "mislickn and hit
another, and this one retorted with a vicious
bite that stirred 10 war at once, and then
the light became general. The vicious and
ugly-looking rattlers struggled around that
stump in one mad fight, hitting one another,
Kissing with impotent rage and thrashing
about madly in their dying struggles The
girls looked on with big frightened ewes.
devoutly hoping that their daliverance was
working itself out. The sickening stanch
from the poisoned fangs of the serpents
began TO effect the girls, and both soon
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the pine stump fortunately holding them
fast
How long the fight lasted they knew not,
as their first recollection of recovery was to
hear the guns ard shouts of their friends.
Their eager replies soon brought their
rescuers to them, and frightful scene met
their eyes. Scattered about the stump
were fifteen or more big rattlers, dead or
dying, mutilated and torn up in their mad
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alive, and these were around the stump,
ooiled up and cycling the girls forms on it.
They were soon dispatched, and the poor
girls brought down from their fearful situa-
ton. Their exposure and fright proved
quite telling, and both have been Ill ever
since.
Old hunters think that May fell into
rattler's home, and that she was not bitten
while in the hole because it was dark IN
there, her body filing up the opening,
so that the snakes were too bewildered to
strike.