Show A HORRIBLE SNAKE STORY of a trav aing salesman leaman Ra while down in ill I 1 A traveling lesman Ra mi who I 1 is in the I 1 employ of an eastern medicine firm has had bad n nn n experience that lie he will not boon for forit gt iio he wati was driving along in the timber which Orind grindstone stone creek mo the warm warin weather had made him drowsy and lie lic had fallen into a doze when Us ills team suddenly fi 13 topped and snorted as if in fear lie I 1 10 was azalce in a moment says the 1 mo republican and looked to fee FCC what excited his hi team steam f I 1 lc c could see sec nothing except a large log that wasl yin across the road albu d of him some thirty or forty yards lie ile burped his team forward but tho the animals refused ref used to move and showed that they were thoroughly thoro frightened frig likened lie he was puzzled Ii finally nally lie he became suspicious that probably some men were acro lying behind the loir lof waiting for him to drive up tip when they would rob lihn him getting out of 1 his Is vehicle lie he tua lis his team around in the road and securely ly far fastened bened them V then lien taking from under the moat a heavy revolver he advanced toward the log lo 10 expecting expect ipp each moment to 6 see a pun gun pointed tit at him but he apt on advancing until lie he was close bhough to look over the log loff and see that vat there more was nothing to fear the peculiar appearance of the log lo 10 attract cd ca his attention and stepping up he put pit out his 11 hand tui to feel the bark horror of horror st the supposed log nothing else than a monstrous bial snake cl springing nin back some twenty dips lie fired upon u pon the rep reptile tife the I 1 ball struck it and glanced off and ad went vent through the leaved with an unearthly hiss the serpent gashed off ill rough h the weeds and underbrush with a rapidity and roar that could hav davs 0 V been heard ata at 1 considerable distance IA its maddened speed it broke off 1 ashes a as thick as n mans wrist and as 4 t ly dashed through ai the creek the water went churning and boiling into the air sif bont by bv a cyclone the lie medi medicine cinn man stood awe struck fair r awhile ach ae but finally recovering liis his anses hp be benn began to ate matters ar his own satisfaction lie concluded afro rom what he be could see that the reptile have been not leas lam than twenty filc n e feet long and na marjre around the bally ily as an ordinary sack of flour y 1110 lie color lor was of an ashen hue with a r slight patre of preen green near the place where the head of the reptile lay the Sc dicine man inan found a short pencil and ia small piece of paper on which was something that could ilot dot be read the pre prevails balls that tha this monster caught and owed some unfortunate ate pernon and that whilo the r ir r otille lm with slime as wi 1 preparatory to tho net eket of f tian atie tko poor or victim tried to J ti i ait y anto t duponti A pa n 1 4 cioce I 1 e ID per the awful i ifa ite iia 42 informant kt a r I 1 1 stale stated trat that if vp was tile tho most 4 ht tl ah exciting I 1 r episode in his life and tha t ai lie e would not repeat it again for all of dekalb county |