The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
REPTILE AND BULL
TWIN TERRORS OF YOUNG PENN
 SYLVANlA WOMAN.
Hlucky Little Dog Comes to the Res cue Until Other Members of the Family Arrive at the
 Scene.

Galeton, Pa-To have been bitten by rattlesnake and then chased by an infuriated bull was an experience of 17-year-ol6 Sarah Brandt, daughter of farmer three miles south of this place. Miss Brandt had been on a visit to a girl friend several miles from her home, and was accompanied by fox terrier. Returning toward evening, her attention was attracted by clump of wild roses, from which she was minded to pluck a bouquet tO carry home.
 The flowers grew on an embank- ment almost as high as the girls head and it was with considerable difficulty that she gained position from which she was able to reach the coveted po- sies. She was compelled to cling to an alder bush with her left hand as she reached to pluck the blossoms with her right.
 The little dog ran up toward the rose clump, gave queer little bark and scampered back into the road. The girl thought nothing of the dogs unusual action. however, until an in
 
 big rattlesnake sprang from it's posi- tion near the wild rosebush and sank its fangs into her bare arm an inch or two above the wrist.
 The girl was fully mile from the nearest house, and started on a run to reach help before the poison be- came scattered through her system. A few rods farther on she came to the meadow of neighbor, and by crossing this field she could shorten the distance by almost quarter of a mile. She scaled the fence and had gained portion of the distance across when she heard the below of a bull and, to her terror, found that she was being pursued by the angry animal. Her little terrier, however, saved the day for her, as he ran toward the ad- vancing bull and put up such a lively bluff that the attention of the big ami nal was temporarily diverted from the girl in an attack upon the dog. By this time the screams of Miss Brandt had been heard at the farmhouse and several members of the household ran to the girls rescue, just as the bull left off his unsuccessful attempt to impale the frisky little dog on his horns and had returned to the pursuit of the girl.
 Fortunately for Miss Brandt, the household in which she had sought refuge was provided with a prepara- tion to overcome the effects of q snakes bite, and the administration of this saved her life, but she was dreadfully sick for forty-eight hours.
 Miss Brandt is peculiarly unfortun- ate She was with her brother on a deer hunt last fall when at point in the woods where he had stationed her on runway a good sized black bear suddenly emerged from a thicket. She became alarmed at the bear, fearing to shoot lest she should but aggravate it and it should attack her. In scam pering from the stump upon which she was standing watch she fell and sustained a broken wrist, her rife having fallen upon 1t with violent force as she pitched headlong to the ground.
 In the meantime the bear had been hiking away through the thicket as fast as his legs could carry him, and though crippled, Miss Brandt succeed ed in firing the gun the given number of times for the prearranged signal of distress, and her brother, who was scarcely a quarter of a mile below her on another bench of the ridge, started 10 find her. He came face to face with Mr. Bear as the latter was streaking
 
 his rife sent bruin to the dust.