The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-15
EARLY SPRING SNAKE STORY.
The Remarkable Achievements of = Farm
Hand In Getting Bit.

The Remarkable Achievements of . Farm
Hand In Getting Bit.
When the editor of the crank depart
ment looked up from his desk to recog.
nize his visitor he failed at first in recog-
milton, but after minute it came TO him
all right.
''How are your he said, heartily.
whats the good word from Loudoun,
and what the mischief have you done
with your whiskers?"
Moved EN-" smiled the visitor.
Springs about got here and / didn't
need 'em. But haven't got any time &c
waste. I come in on my way to the
train to tell you of queer snake story
up our way"
isn't it a little early for snake
stOries?" suggested the editor.
Eyes, for this years crop, but this one
is last years one, that just found
out about yesterday"
Then it must be true Go ahead with
IL. Take chair, won't your
mo, TIL stand, SOS to be ready tc
start when I've finished. You see last
year had hired hand on the farm thai
I never seen till the day he asked for
work. 1 needed a hand purity bad, and
took him right in without a word ex-
cept to tell him that if he got drunk I'd
turn him off. He said he wasn't e
drinking man and he went right "a
work in the hay field. He wasn't the
best worker l ever hired, but he Wa.
steady and we got along all right till the
fourth day he was with me. That day
was in the barn, and heard a yell, and
] run TO the door and seen my hired man
flying around the field as if the old ser
pent himself was after HIM When hs
seen me he headed my way, and as be
went past me / could see a short
stumpy, notified snake hanging 10 his
leg at the ankle. He few around the
barn. yelling at every jump, and took
after him and caught him IN @ clump OF
woods about 200 yards from the barn,
where he had dropped. plumb tuckered
out When / got 70 him the snake was
gone, but the marks OF teeth were on his
quart bottle of liquor I keep for snake
bites, and other household purposes,
and soon had him loaded down 70 the
guards He was sober by next morning
and all right, and the day after he went
TO work again. He stayed with me
month after that and then left when
had no work for him, and in the four OF
FIVE weeks l had him that snake caught
him that same way six times, and &C
save our necks We could never find the
snake Sometimes il would nab him bS
the hand when he was workin' in toe
weeds, and sometimes IL would catch
him in one place and sometimes IN an
other, but il would always hang on and
he would run and yell and me after him
Now for the queer part" said the Wis
flor, taking final squirt The Other
day I was grubbin' out that clumP Of
bushes and. by hockey, / seen q snake
and before l. could mote stuck ny
grubbin' hoe through il and dragged
it out and durn my buttons. come 70
look at It IL wasn't nothin' but = rae
snake, painted 7 carried IL up 70 the
house and as soon az my boy seen y be
whooped. and said II was the same
snake that had been feedin' on nv hired
man ali last harvest, and reckon the
boy was right"
The editor gave the visitor gentle
ha~ haw.
That's all right said the visitor
moving away. lust let that ohaptry x
Eit work with ne this year; IL he don't
wish that that vas = genuine copper
head then I amt DO Judge Of whzt II
% 70 him --TsshingtOB Star