The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-07-07

heard that there they were very album
dant one companion from ne" aoIA
accompanied me on nay huni.
Ahout a mile from Cold Spring is the
Emerson House, az NclsonNillt, anu "e
v0nd this for another mae me Io"u
lined With woods, until it is broken again
boy a. low-lylng Held covered on lne uppo'
rarts with grass and on tHe I'D" ~ li-s
liaees by rank weeds and swamp grass
nirn as ones waist Through the
MIDDLE of this field a lazy stream mean
0-rs I'm a muddy course, closely shaueu
30, bofb sides hy thickots OF leaiy ald'is.
t,,, manifest reasons This piece OF grorhu
&. called the Corporhead Field. As we
entered at the gate we found one deau'
f.... tr4mu rs we might, through Weins
,,.f GRASS TO the waist. we nowhere couia
,...t with "a snake though our nervous
trsaiaafion may be imagined. Tor at any
moment we might step on one unseen.
Trsucccssful we returned 10 lho " '"'9,
which I'D The close vicinity OF the H'lu
sr. said I'D be tine worst snake-haunted
srot in cold Spring. Inc ie.Al,ss "a "a
fho pconle about ID may be uhutia'vou
froro the fact that no hunter VIII enter
unless booted TO the knees; and young
man Of the locality who had joined me
ror my Sew York companion had gone
ar bv HIMSELF declared his Intention OF
sitting ON a rock 10y the roadside Whiie 1
made my cautious way alone into tH"
wooded kingdom Of the copperheauS. me
trees grew thickly together ana the ""-
dcrerowta was so dense that u was "ot
,,oe.thle 90 see more than a few yards
I'm any direction. suddenly J came ou1
into a clearing. where q tree had ialleh
ANA rotfed. but the clearing was even
moro dense than the thicset, Tor Weeus.
climbing and creeping, had usurpea an
tho onavtnr and Melted themselves 70
The branches OF the trees round about
10 Break'ng my way through these
ana lifting them mp on my stick. stoop-
irt and rocring. I stood and there Jay
"a conporhead. leather hued, banded with
lrovrn. GID "a coil. and q big coil ar that
five feet in front of my nose lne heal'
Hvafer iu color than The rest, stood up
"a few inches IN the centre EVEN az
/ saw him out came the yoNoWish qulN-
.,.ng foueue. feeling the air with ITS
points. which plainly told that ne saw
ma AS a.hear 10 get paws on a wood
of,ot dashcs through byambies that
screen IL. SD dil / with my snake STICK
dash fn ON the coveted coil of the cop
r.rhcad. the first ! had seen i'm my NE
frrc I'm spite of the tWine-like Stalks
which held the place In hel-WoIh, /
rot forward. and shot i'm my long SICK
over the head sticking up from the e"it
and now menacing me. Down came
no stick with quick push ON his neck
r turned and bit it, SO I moved it closer
to the head. and then throwing myself
forward STOPPING. half stumbling hait
falling. seized him with left hand at PACK
of his Jaws and drew him forth from ms
coin. But before ! had drawn him root
out came another head, heretofore ma
dDn. which dashed at my hand. hul
ts.s second snake. which TO my surprise
was m tine same COIL didn't succeed ID
w0mdmg me. thanks TO the density OF
the underground. against which her Jaws
snont their venom Having the smaller
ono ~ the Two by the neck IN my left
hand now held my stick TO my right
fo rrosS down the other snake also, lest
10 should attempt 20 glide of before my