The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-09
The a@ie1a Daily Eage Tuesday 5tloraue z1ay 1883

never ban tackled by snakes afore, an
fust along he didn't seem to know how
to handle hisself.
"'Gosh,' says This hain't hardly
fair shake! But says I. 1T hain't
none o. my funer'l won't mix myself
up in the row. says Let 'en sal.
their own pork, says
'But pooty soon see that the bar
were gittin' his dander up The big
blacksna.ze that were squeezin' him ez
il he were in wise were iist about to
give the screws turn that'd a
squashed the bars ribs, sure ez guns,
when the bar took a hand in the muss
hisself. He grabbed that big black
snake with his forepaws, snatched it
often him in a jify, an snapped it
inter more'n twenty chunks fore /
could "a said 'baug!' Then he reached
for the rattlesnal1e that were ehawin
at his nose, an for the one that were
workin a hole through his ear, an
Slated EN- inter mush gin the rocks.
Then he backed up az in a tree, and
know'd the fun were gointer open. He
reached out an snatched two black
snakes, each by the head, one III his
right paw an .'other IN in his left
Sol. he used them snakes, and the
littlest of 'em wasn't an inch less'n
eight feet long, jist like mule driver
d use his whip. He cracked EN- around
like mad, an ev'ry time he give cut
with one, off went the head of rat
tier or copperhcad or another black
snake, jist ez sure ez the bar cut an
slashed. The bar kept that snake
whiplash o his'n Suappin' an
crackin' fer more'n fifteen minutes, an
snake heads were scattered around
like chips from a chopin, till tina
want another snake left o the hull
den. ieastways, not unless he had
turned tail an TUX to the woods. Then
the bar quit cuttin' an slashin'. His
two blacksnake whips We're shattered
out, an consid'ab slimpsy, an the
the bar broke EN- inter bits an slung
'em around permisc'ous I've see a
good many excitin' an hair-raisin'
reecry atoms in the woods, Solomon,
but that air were ieetle the hair
raisin est-that an what followed.
''Arter the bar had kinder looked
over the battlefield a little, he turned
around and clumb the tree. He went
way up an stretched hisself on
branch. I watched him a minute, an
then / says:
Hes too durn tired to ever git
rested to-day says. I guess l bet
ter give him rest right away by put
tin some lead n him. says.
81 hauled up to do it, when the bar
begun to do sumpin that skeert me.
He were swellin'. He got bigger an
bigger. I could actuly see him grow,
Sol,
"'Gosh! says. He'll be bigger'n a
COW if he don't quit!'
'He KEEP on CROWN an CROWN fer
a couple O minutes, an then all of a
student he rolled often the branch an
kim tumblin' to the ground. He struck
kerplunk on his back. He were bigger
around, Sol, than a fifty-gallon bar'l,
an his four legs stuck up in the air,
jist like the legs of sawhoss, an jist
nose, an looked like goose eggs.
There never were a bar SO bile
dead ez that bar were. Maturity not,
cause it hain't no way likely that tina
ever were a bar so chuckful an run
MIN over with snake p'ison ez this un
were. It were slow a talxin', but when
it took it had took amazin'-all over
an to wunst. 1t were tetchin' sight,
an rolled the onfortinit bar down
the hill inter the swamp. l gathered
up around there, Sol, enough rattlers
that he had snapped the heads off Of to
bile out three gallon an half O. the
ch'icest kind O oil, an, if that had
been any PINT in doin' of it, 1 could "a
picked up bushel O. blacksnake an
other snake heads-showin' b'gosh,
that snakes an bar don't only fight,
but that they fight fer keeps, Solomon!
But l wouldn't look at that scene in the
wild wildernest o. Sugar Swamp ag'in,
not fer another bar'l O rum an another
acre O tanzy."
But when he looked closer to see
how this last reference struck the
landlord, and found that he was sound
asleep, the Old Settler looked panied,
and went home without saying good
night Ed Mott, in n. Y Sun.