Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1897-01-08

pickle either, to scOTch Mtxlcan's
throat has yet to be found.
jim Kelly, the lrlshman, WAS
saddling the freshest of our horses
10 ride at best speed into LINDSAY.
eleven miles away 10 the haze OF
the plains, for the doctor. ln a
minute he was pounding away
along the hills. Fix up light as
high as you Can put 1t If it's dark
before we get back , he shouted as
he went.
We pulled the sock off the
Mexicsn's foot. Already it was
swelling fast...with a purplish tinge
round a tiny blue spot, from which
the smallest imaginable drop OF
blood had welled.
Any good cauterlzing ltfI sug'
gested.
not a mag Jock said shortly.
Go on with the brandy and keep
him moving; that's his only
chance.'
The MexicBn'S face was dreadful
to see; he called, IN his terror, on
every saint in the church; but be
declared he suffered no pam. Jock,
improving the occasion, began re
laling in a low voice to me anec-
dOtes of all the snake bites he had
known. 'One boy I've seen that
recoyered,' he said, and that was
from the bite of a brown snake,
and as a rattler-an Australian
brown snake, that is; rattler can't
be worse. But this boy was
stupid all his life after, not as
quick. .witted rs the average, when
is not much to say. And at times
Just at the time of year at which
he'd been bitten, the wound got
red again and swelled and he was
Stupider than ever. Louis had On
a sock; the rattler'd have had to
through that; he might have spent
a bit of bis poison there; that
gives Louis a sort of a chance.
Does it hart you now, Louie?
'No, boss, no, not hnrt!
The swelling was spreading, 60
ing up the ankle and right up The
leg, and the man began to talk
slowly and painfully.
Il remember said Jock; going
along a ridge Of terrace on a
steep river bank. The river was
full of sharks, and met a brown
suake coming along the ridge
towards NE. There wasn't room
to turn, and couldn't take to the
river for the sharks, and l hadn't
gun, and he poked the barrel In
between my legs and blew the
brute to bits"
ia that tue. JOchf' [ asked
MY heaven, DIS ou think Pd lie
at such time as thisP with
glance at Louie's face.
Are you getting sleepy, manY
be said; then, as Louis did not
answer, he took him under the
arm, aud signaling me to do the
same cd the other side we kept
him moving between up up and
down aud round the tent. From
time to ti1e we made him drink
more brandy. He had taken halt
a bottle, but it seemed to have no
effect on him.
sIt stlrulates the hearts action,
you know Jock explained, Just as
the poison goes to stop il; but
strychnine's the best; acts as nerve
tonic. It's deal to do with the
nerves, this snase bite business
we heard the little ground owls
begin hlstllng to each other from
the mouths of the squirrel holes
away down 10 the plan, and the
bats and moths begin to come out
as the sun sank out of sight. lib ey
bruthed our faces as We continued
to march the Mexican to and fro.
Presently left the work to Jock
and rugged up pine torch tor
signal light on the pole, which l
took from the wagon. The JOB
took seme while, but at length /
got the light fairly fsring.
Look at his f,ce,' Jock whisper
ed to me as / came back to him.
1t was a shocking sight under
the 6ickerlng rays, swollen, dis
torted, livid. The mans arm was
swollen, too, as l felt when / took
my place to support him. Hii
= movements were lethargic and
1 heavy, so that / wondered tha
: Jock, unaided, could have KEEP
him moving so long.
Z Give him more brandy Joel
directed, 'more; that's it-he's had
s nearly all the bottle, There's q
chance he went on presently;
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