The Van Buren press., 1893-06-10
A SNAKE BITE CURE.
Tho Old Settler Tolls Of Its Won
derf0l Effecta
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Tho Old Settler Tolls Of Its Won
derfl Enects
..ors.. ,p:s| .1l.ln!s Il squIss.
looking up from the paper hs was read ,
ing All uie6pine Ms 6ne6r Spns the
place. Twenty thousand! Wat do
y6 think o that, major? Twenty thou
,ss ss' k'f srYf''n snakes IN one
'W'at DO thinkon itg'said the Old
Get1lsA asAvhlI, Iyhiuk them folks must
- took their applejack pooty durn new,
b'goGh an leetle too often!'
L}f Atfae)SE& sssfill the squire, glar-
ing 1t the Old Settler. "Applcjack hain't
got nuthin y do with III These folks
WsA bit.'l xan
s'13it, was they?" responded the Old
Settler. ..Wull, tina hain't nuthin' that
~ ~ wues tlzsnTnew applejaek,s i
squire, Tvs knowd ito be sharper'n'
i aarpsusss tooth. hut who were tellin'4
70 bout all them folks dyin's from snake
bites? That's good many folks,
"a lsjsb bNssa y sstfoat % peddls
(. fnets."
'.why, consarn itr exclaimed the
squire, there 1t is, right here in the pa
pert The paper says that last year tina
was twenty thousan' folks died in Injy
from snake bites."
s'In gnjy, hay9' said the Old settler.
'sWhy, didn't hev no kind an idee that
\ the sarpent had got ez much of a foot
koldon Injy's coral strand cz all that.
Humphl must tell M'riar bout that,
an tha'll be q special mectin' Of the
Clothers O Them It q Max dun Feed
-crp O. Them that Hungers called to
<bk Aidtsr ~ Ihis here won't never
dol M'riar must call . meetin' OF the
Clothers an Feeders, and the sistern
must line the mex cargo O. red flannel
shirts an se,Dn' han pants with lea ther.
been spectin' they twas little too
thin 70 perfect them heathens on Injy's
coral strand. An wat is the news
fEUn 0reehlAn's icy mountains, squire?
How many folks is missin'. long O.
snakes, up there? An does Afric's sun
NJ fountains send in any returns?
sGcsht'imighty! This'll make trouble
fer my yaller-leg chickens ag'in, wen
this news gifts around, fer the Clothers
and Feeders alluz stays TO supper.
Watts the returns from Aries sunny
fouhfnins. 4nizes- SE1ftf x
The squire. folded up his paper. put it
IN his pocket and gave the Old Settler
= withf fin& bo)g but faid hothfng.
Thi8 was plainly Disappointing to the
Old settler, but aftenawhile he resumed
'shodA Aayg" s.id III
4wisht know'd the directions O. some
leadin' heather oyer there am I'd send
him letter tellin' him bout the never
failin'r sugar swamp cure for snake
p'ison, an tina wouldn't be no use o.
snakes bitin' anybody in that pleasin'
kentfY apy4pore fer they'd only waste
their p'ison. II anything ever were
cortion to snakes that Sugar Swamp
p'isoh cure werrl Goshf'lrpighty. how
Il could draw! An that were fist the
trouble with it. 1t had SO much heft
tosif4 drawhf spfFers haN the dspger
we5S hat H Il &qt Its hooks ontHr'
fcller that had snake pison in him it
were li4hie3 p kill him yhileit were
carin' MIN. fervidih', o course. that
ye wa'p't keerfnl in usin' on it. The in
efejthtsS0 that sugar Swamp snake
pison cure is secret, cz nobody kin
eveS hev outside O. our family. The
2feraeription were thunk up by an an-
-cistOr. o. mine who kim inter Sugar
Swamp wen things was slseerce.
EutMng INT bar an snakes. Ths
wAht but two bar'llos apple juice in
the hun settlement wen this ANCESTOR
O. mine sot down there, an folks was
comm In ev'ry day all bit up by snakes,
ard cQnsekently havin' to be filed up
With thAt juice IN way that were
alarmin', that bein' the only snake
p'isOn cure ez were reco'nized 'ulongst
the 'arly settlers o. Sugar Swamp. So
hb &ncistoro' mine he got all worked
up over it, seein' the way things was
golH~ ~thefNsNse were goin' to be very
short. ez fur ez life bein' pleasant had
anything to do with it, snakes bein SO
plenty. folks bein' so willin' to be bit
an apple juice bein' so skeerce. So he
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kE't lisa duHn shame. says he, to be .
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