The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-09
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PROM the Now York sun
Scranton, July 10. Is. Mcserole v-so
peddles tin through sullivan county s-.
down GA a fallen tree near Lopez Cree.
few days ago, while letting his hons,
feed on the roadside grass. He MA
smoking his pipe and whiting away mn
a pine stick, when all Of a sudden SOM.
thing struck the left side Of his sar,y
coat and made a tin box in his pocket RAJ
tie. CHANGING around quickly Peddler
Meserole beheld an object that startled
him 50 that he yelled like an Indian and
jumped twelve feet from the tree. mo
sight covered his skin with goose pimpIes
in a twinkllng, and his face became as
white as milk, for within a foot
from where had been sittiI,
lay a coiled copperhead. The snake had
left poison in his coat, and ii would have
struck at him again in a second if he
hadn't jumped When the scared ped
dler came to his senses he got a sword
cane from his cart, pinned the reptile to
the log, and filled its poisoned mouth with
fine, dry tobacco, having his revenge bv
seeing the snake die in exquisite agony.
Then he ascertained that the copperhead
had crawlad out of crack in the log, and
poking In the crack with his cane, he
quickly routed out another copperhead,
apparently the mate of the dead one. The
ming it to the log, he threw a handful OF
tobacco insitf mouth and eyes, and had
the satisfaction of witnessing the most
lively contortions he had ever seen a
reptile go through with So The copper
head writhed to the middle of the road
where it died in three minutrs.
One morning last week Philander B.
Keith of Lehigh Glen, heard a 2-year-od
colt snOrting and screaming in the pas
ture and going to the barn door he saw
the colt stamping in the grass, while
three horses and some cattle had stopped
grazing and were staring at the active
colt in apparent wonder. Mr.. Keith ran
to the spot and found that the colt had
stamped a rattlesnake to death. Theani-
NAL Cantered away, and the horses and
cattle chased him around the lot until he
dropped on his knees and was unable to
go any further Mr. Keith discovered
that the colt had been struck on the up
per lip by the rattlesnake, evidently while
he was cropping the heritage, and the
supposition was that the hurt maddened
him so that he began to stamp on the rep
tile the moment he received the wound.
In his fight with the RATHER the colt got
struck on his forelegs by the snakes
deadly fangs. His head, neck and legs
swelled almost to bursting, and In less
than an hour he died.
On June "a Levi A. Clapsaddle Of Gold
enrod Mountain had his straw hat pulled
from his head by q saucy rattlesnake.
Mr.. Clapsaddle was climbing up a ledge
Of rocks in the neigh borhoOd of Racket
Falls to make q short cut across Hickory
Ridge when the rattlesnake got wind Of
him, and struck out from a shelving rock
on a level with his head The reptiles
fangs got stuck in the brim of Mr.. Clap
saddles hat. and when the snake coiled
again it pulled the hat off, and the sud
denness of the act gave Mr.. Clapsaddle
such start that he lost his hold and
rolled sixty feet before he stopped Then
he said he was angry, and climbing up the
ledge a few yards south of his former
route he mashed the RATHER with stone
and recovered his hat.
Early in May u green-headed frog an
nOyed Mrs. Celida Morchouse, of Slab
vile, Wyoming county, several times q
day by hopping around the well curb
whenever she went to draw bucket Of
water. The frog got to be such nuisance
that one evening Mrs Morehouse put it
in pail, carried it half a mile away, and
placed it carefully near the edge Of a mud
puddle. In the morning the neighborly
frog was at the well when Mrs. More
house went for her first pail of water, and
that night she lugged it to q swamp,
mile distant, and left 1t on a log. Two
days afterward the frog appeared at
Unc well once more, anu MIS-. MORE
house put it into her buggy the next day
and dropped it by the roadside, two
miles from her residence. She thought
she had got rid of the sociable green
header at last, but four days later the
good-natured creature found it's way
back to the well again, whore it met
Mrs. Morehouse with pleasant blink and
friendly grin That day she sharpened
the butcher knife and went out to Stay
the frog. A spotted adder had it by the
hind legs, and the poor fellow was cry
ing so hard that Mrs. Warehouses; heart
sOftened, and she saved its life by killing
the snake Since then Mrs Morehouso
has made a pet Of the faithful frog.