The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-03

could see 1t the snake unchecked two or
three coils of itself from the tail end and
tnrowed EN- round the pine tree. When
the snake got that hitch on the tree ii
prougF the procession to a stop so sud-
den that the big pine snapped and crack
ed IN way that made my uncle shiver.
didn't expect nothin else he used
to say, but what that tree would be tore
up by the roots, and go smashin' and
smashin and crashin on down the hill
with the snake and the bear
But the roots held, and the tree didn't
toppie. When the bear was brought to
that sudden stop at t'other end of the
snake 1t seemed to my uncle as if the
snake must snap square in two Instead
of that, the big serpent was so much like
so many lengths of Injin rubber the bear
new back up the hill as if he had been hit
by a locomotive. And suppose the snakes
hold on him had broke? 1t would have
been awful, for then my uncle would never
have come back to tell this story. The
bear would have kept on flynn up the hill,
and swept my uncle off the face of the
earth like a roarin' cyclone!
Fortunately, the snakes hold wasn't
broke, but the snake was strained so that
the bear had good deal more play in its
folds, and he started right in to show the
snake that he knowed it. Before the snake
could pull itself together and begin TO
swaller the bear again bruin reached
around socked his teeth into the snake.
anu went TO chawin' his way right through
IT, MY uncle said it didn't seem any time
at all before the bear had chawed a hole
IN the snake big enough to get his head in.
Ihe snake twisted and Kissed and thrash
ed ana Wiggled, but it wasn't no use. and
1t gradually Strengthened out and give up.
Bruln kept right on, though until he had
cha"ed ms way clean through the snake,
ana craWled out on t'other side. He snap
ped and snarled awhile at the carcass Of
the serpent that had put him to so much
trouble, and then started on his way. But
he didn't go as if he felt well, and my
uncle noticed curious white marks pretty
much all over him, and he thought to MIN
sell that the snake must have been terri
pie lat, from the Jumps of it that was
stickln' to the bears pelt. And then all Of
suadeh ne thought that it would be a big
ieather in his cap to kill that bear. He
grabbed his gun and headed bruin off. II
took three rife balls to finish him. and
then my uncle had a surprise that heat
all the rest of EN-
Them white spots on the bear wasn't
Jumps O. snake fat at ALL he used to saw
Iney was Jist the ends 0, ribs and Joints
and shoulder blades and hips and shins
ana thlngs stickin' out O. the bears hide,
SO amazln' had been the squeeze that snake
had give him.
My uncle never forgot that sight, and
TIL his dyin' day, when any one acted as
II they had an opinion about that snake
and bear story, he'd point to two deers
SKINS he always kept by him at home, and
triumphantly say:
Do you see them skins? Well, them's
the skins o them two deer l was skinnin
when that snake and bear happened. Can
you git over that evidence, 1 want to
know?'
and they never could. Can your" con-
cluded Packy Griswold, looking dehnantly
around the Circle.
No one wanted to try, because the Circle
now knew that this story was one that
Packy has included among his supplies fol
Hyde county, with intent to tell it down
in that region; and as the Circle wants
Packy to come back, it turned all it's eff.
forts toward inducing him to leave the
story at home The Circle had not succeed.
ed yet, late Thanksgiving night, and it is
feared that if the effort is persisted in
some one will be seeing snakes as remark
able as the one Packy Griswold's uncle
saw down on Ro1vDO1v Pm