The Worthington advance., 1893-06-01
A SNAKE BITE CURE
The Old Settler Tells Of Its Won
derfu Effects.

6reat spooks" exclaimed the squire,
looking up from the paper he was read
ing and keeping his finger on. the
place. ss Twenty Thousand! wat do
ayeth fnlosthet t sasmajor? 4 Twenty thou
ssan Folks dyih from snakes ii one
year!''
swat do think on it?'g, said the Old
Settler. 'Wull, l think them fOlksmusts
"a took their applejack pooty durn new,
bgosh, an leetle too often!'
"Applejack!" said the squire, glar-
ing at the Old Settler. "Applejack hain't
got nuthin' to do with it! These folks
was bit.''
''Bit, was they?" responded the Old
Settler. "Wull, tina hain't nuthin' that
kin bite wuss thin new applejack,
squire. I've knowd it to be sharper'n
a sarpent's tooth. But who were tellin'
ye bout all them folks dyin' from snake
bites? That's good many folks,
squire. Ye orter be leetle keerful of
yer fggers when ye set out to peddle
"Why, eonsarn itw exclaimed the
squire, "here it is, right here in the pa
per! The paper says that last year tina
was twenty thousan' folks died in Iniy
from snake bites!'
why, didn't hev no kind an idee that
tie sarpent had got ez much of foot.
hold on Injy's coral strand ez all that!
Hnmph! i must tell M'riar bout that,
an thall be a special meetin' of the
Gothers O. Them that's Naked an Feed
ets O. Them that Hungers called to
l0olssintergsit zgF Fhiss here won't never
do! M'riar must call meetin' Of the
Clothers an Feeders, and the sistern
must line the mex cargo:o' red flannel
shirts an secon'-han' pants with leather.
+ been spectin' they was little too
thin to perfect them heathens on Injy's
coral strand. An wat is the news
from Greenlan'sicy mountains, squire?
How many folks is missin', long O.
snakes, up there? An does Afric's sun
ny fountains send in any returns?
Gosht'lmighty! This'll make trouble
fer my yaller-leg chickens aS'in, W EN-
this news gifts around, fer the Clothers
and Feeders alluz stays. to supper.
Watts tho returns from Afric's sunny
fountains, squire?"
The squire folded up his paper, put it
in his pocket and gave the Old Settler
q whitening look, but said nothing.
This was plainly disappointing to the
Old Settler, but sitter awhile he resumed
the subject. Is
'Twenty thousand, hay?" said he. II
wisht know'd stho directions o. some
leadin' heathens over there an I'd send
him letter tellin' him bout the never
failin' Sugar Swamp cure for snake
p'ison, an thaswouldn't be no use o.
snakes bitin' apybody in that pleasin'
kentry any more, fer they'd only waste
their p'ison-..~lf anything ever were q
cortions to snakes that Sugar Swamp
p'ison cure wete! Gosht'lmiqhty.F how
it could draw! An that were jist~the
trouble with itN It had so much heft
TO its DRAWN powers that the danger
were that if itIgot its hooks onter q
feller that hadssnake p'ison in him it
were liable toskil] him while it were
curin' him. P@vidin', o. course, that
ye ewa'n't keerf@ in usin on 1t. The In
grejintS O. that Sugar Swamp snake
p'ison cure is : secret ez nobody kin
ever hev outsiAe o. our rfamily.~~The
perscri ption wSe thunk up by an an.
Swamp wen things was skeerce
Ev'rytling but bar an snakes. Tha
want sbut two bar'l O. apple juice in
the hhl settlement wen this ANCESTOR
o mine sot GOWN there, an folks was
comm i'm evry day all bit up by snakes,
and consekently havin' to be filed up
with that juice in way that were
alarmip', that bein' the, only snake
p'ison cure ez were reco'nized 'mongst
tho 'ar1y settlers O. Sugar Swamp. So
this ancistor O. mine he got all worked
up over it, SEEM the way things was
goin' the future were goin' to be very
short, sez fur ez life bein' pleasant had
anything Us 10 WITH II, snakes beln "a
plenty, folks lbein' SO willin' to be bit
q -jaaies sheias - oa2ssenee.a~S be
up an says:
"Itsa durn shame says he, to be a
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