Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-03-02
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cause he wanted it, tfrf}f'%v e? !
= 'Tother side q that spring, maybe
= couple hundred yards, he overlook
ID pack pedler who was trudging along
and Dan tried to walk along with him
for company, but the pedlerS Travelled
IStoo slow for Dan, and he pulled ou'
and left him behind. .fsHH.@
Il "$'aNhen Dan come to the little run
across the road he" thought it must
come from a spring, and bein mortal
thirsty he looked for it. >. The grease
twas, runnin' down his face, and all
through his hair, and he said the heat
had made it smell leetel worse than
common, if thatScoulG be. B" y '..' . ~
81 'Dan found the spring and took q
good drink, and swashed his face in it
sawhile. Then he started on. He
hadn't gone more ttan,2O PAGES when
he heard a most appallin' yell behind
him He looked back and seen the
pedler he had passed layin' in the road
and within tremendous.
~ " Dan ran back as fast as he could to
see what was the matter. The pedler
was clutchin'', his neck with one hand.
His eyes was, starin' and his face was
purple. He recognized Dan and man
aged to say:t@ N a'E.N Hs%i :"E z
In "'A RATHER bit me in the neck! Yon-
der he lays!" e.. IVY. ~! - ''' ~. 80
/" Dan looked where the pedler was
polntin', and there, sure enough. lay 4
tug RATHER at the edge O the bushes that
hid the spring, coiled up and glarin' like
fury. Before Dan could grab club and
kill, the snake, the pedler threw him
selftforwards and grabbed the RATHER.
The snake sank his fangs into the man
again, this time at the wrist. The ped
Ter tore the snake in two and throwed
the parts on the ground and stamped
'em into the earth.,5 g..
".'He was able to tell Dan before he
keeled over, with his head and neck
swelled most to bursting, that he had
kneeled at the spring to get q drink
when the RATHER, that laid in the ferns
on t'othcr side O. the spring, had struck
him, sinkin' it's fangs SO Geep in his neck
that when he sprung backward to the
road and fell there he drug the snake
back with him. The poor fellow died in
a short time. Dan put his body in the
tell the news to.
"'That crumblin' old derrick that you
see over yonderson the hill was the well
that I was helpin' put down at that time.
and Dan came over there with his news.
"''Lucly for me that RATHER wasn't
there when l stuck my head over tina:
spring, wasn't it," says Dan.
''' 1.-THE snake wasthere, all right
says /. "You was uoctoIin' that bald heal
O. your'n. There's where the luck comes
In. If it hadn't been for the smell O that
bald head cure" says "the, pedler
would be here now askin' us to go bs1k
and help plant you," says, 'instead O.
you bein' here askin' the favor for him.
Rattlers will squat and lay down close
when they smell crude grease" says.
1--WE went back with Dan and buried
the pedler where you seen that hum
mock. and the spring has been called
Dead Mans Spring ever since =.
Il didn't make any remark about this
story for some time, and then, with a
grin that meant to be aggrayating,
said: ."t &C., a"
odd Dan Mitchells hair come in?'
odd it, exclaimed the. native and |
saw that my grin had not been in the
least aggravating. You bet it did!
Shocks of it! But it was great disap-
ointment to Dam -'-'
Disappointment Il said.
Yes replied the native, Tipping a
fly from his horse. The hair ought to
been black, but it come in as white as
his grandfather's, Dan got setch scare
overthat narrow escape O his'n!'
when we got to the place where We
we're going told the man at the tavern
to let my driver have what he wanted
and charge it to me. The bill was 4
rouser but didn't begrudse the cost. -
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POLITE CIGAR Z SMOKERS !l ZEE
Enumerated a Carriage Several Times,