The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-26
FOUGHT SNAKES WITH nor LIE.
me Thrilling Experience OF "A Wo-
man Down jersey.

The Thrilling Experience OF a wo-
man Down Jersey.
From the Philadelphia Times.
Esq Harbor City. July l0.-New Jersey
Is not part OF Ireland. This can be
proven. for tradition says that ST. Pat
TICK drove all the snakes out OF the En-
eTald Isle, but poor SPAIN seems TO be-
pressed with the snakes and cursed hv
having no patron saint 1.-THE u-oods ara
tu-. or lnem. The expression orielnat-f
~ ~. NeW Jersey. and is the facetious way
tLlr INHABITANTS have of referriue TO the
creeping Nertebrates that make NE UNDER
etrNlh IN the pine woods their habitat
me recent forest fires that have swent
SSHer tAr woody portions IN this vicinity
nave mad the effect OF driving the suff-r-
ing snakes from their leafv homes a-f
ptlnslng them out into the open. Fortu-
dteIy Tor our residents. these are for the
most part or the harmless black or pine
variety, not being supplied with any mol
soL Idn+s. SUM- snake is snake. and
~ yple nate them as an Incarnation OF the
Oid serpent OF the Garden of Eden.
&, Dn me outskirts OF this place John
5.liiS IiFes with his wife and baby. little
10y OF ABOUT 9; a couple OF Jersey
dogs, and tnls a ten-acre scrub Iof fre
~ quiet unassuming man. much given
20 mlndinS his own business. DOING the
pest ne can with the little farm. and oc-
-'t+--A NttAhl.AE over TO the STORE for
ms huusenoid goods. one day last week
II struck him that being out of tobacco
AAu a rev other ncCesSaries he couId
spend an hour or two most properlv in
Eolng across. So. cautiOning the wife to
Match out for the fires that were burn-
ing 10 the west and southwest. ana teIlln-
her tnat ne would be back In an hour or
two. he started. ''O1' VI
Mrs Sans put the baby in the cradle
ana started to attend TO some Ugbf 10
0NlIHHE lob ,,f..
around. Johnny, run down to the shed
and bring me "a little wood. win vou?'' bis
mother said. cautionng him to hurry nm
ana NOT stop TO play. The minutes went
by ana Johnny not returning. Mrs Sans.
with look at the baby. went TO hunt
him. As she stepped out of the house
she almost trod on a snake, but she grab
bed a poker and after dispatching the
Narmint, She started for the woodshed
Just then loud yen OF Mother. mother
come quick the pig pen Is fun OF snakesr
ana terrible squealing in the vicinity Of
the barn told the rest. Mrs Sans start
Cd Tor the pen. TO see Johnny looking over
the fence and, as she said afterward
watching the antics OF about two hun
dred black snakes.
They had been driven out Of the woods
by the fires, and Sans place was tine first
they arrived at The pen seemed literally
alive with them. and the pigs were
screaming and dancing around, springing
up into the air. and jumping on the
wrthng mass with their sharp pointed
feet The snakes were large however
and the pigs. while doing their best, were
unable to overcome them. Bidding little
Johnny to come with her, Mrs Sims
started back to the house She had been
making some soap and the kettle OF hot
I've still stood on the ground. She seized
a bucket and poured out quantity Of The
I've. and gave Johnny a smaller pail and
quickly hurried to the pen and commenced
to throw IL in among the writing SNAKES
and squealing pOrkers. So well did she
perform her work that the snakes not
killed We're soon Obliged to wriggle hiss
ingly away Almost worn out Mrs. Sims
then started back to the house.
The lively Johnny was on ahead, de-
lighted with the skirmish and evidently
wishing for more. As he reached the
dwelling in advance of the mother she
heard him: Gee whiZ. mon. here's more
IN the kitchen" The scene I'm the house
was like the one at the pig pen although
the snakes seemed to feel that they were
more at home there than farther away.
for they Kissed threateningly when Mrs.
Sans and Johnny tried to go in. This
time, after throwing a few more buck
cts of the hot I've around, she started IN
with a hay rake to gather them up and
out, but there were many live ones there
that twined themselves about her and
Johnny until they We're badly bruised. In
the middle of this Sans fortunately came
back and, taking a hand, soon succeed
ed i'm pulling the snakes away from his
wife and boy where's the baby, wfeY'
and with a shrek the mother started
for the other room, having forgotten, in
the excitement all about II.
There was the baby, sitting up in the
cradle, looking fondly at a little black
snake that was crawling over the covers
of the crib. At the foot of the cradle
were two tremendous fellows, reared upon
their tails. who Sans says were trying
to rock the cradle. II tell you" he said.
ut would have been darn funny If il had
not been so dangerous. | could a. stood
there and watched them for an hour, but
1 was afraid they might crawl in the
cradle and crush the kid You see, they
were big, and the cradle was an old
one, with knobs at the four corners and
the snakes were twisted around the knobs
and had their tails on the floor, and
first one would push and then the other,
and / tell you it was a pretty thing to see.
/ think the little snake belonged to them,
and they seemed awfully tickled to have
it getting a ride, and as for the kid,
well. she was just as cute with it, hug
GIN it up, and a latin and crawlin'. I
tell you, / hated to touch EN- However.
l snatched It up and gave 1t a fling that
killed 1t. And do you know those two
fellows started in on me. I'm pretty
strong, so it didn't take long to do 'em
up. Big? Well, say-one was nine feet
and the other seven. Big? Yes, sir, big
gest ones of the lot
l asked Sans how many were killed al
together, by himself and wife, and he
said they raked thirty-tWo out of the
kitchen, three in the other room, one out
side and fond about eighty dead ones in
the pig pen. The funny part Of it," he
said, was that the I've took every hair
off of the pigs, and ] told mum that If
II had only been KILN time we would
a had no need of scaldin en-"
WaterspOUts of the Desert.
L-ro-,, tho I2irroiu oh q -, poet