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Show ' COL. JONES IN LUCK. I ! Be CMpiurcit Genuine PorpoUo Snilce, a u 11 Few Other Hnre Seen. I C' I. J. B. Jones was tithing on tlie i .in! cf It ilfoot creek. Tennessee, j h u'ii'i,' left his boot to escape the hot iti, yi:d had hardly thrown his line I out into the water wbf.i lie aw a dark object rapidly approaching tlie surface. At first the genial colonel thought it an alligator of unusual size, but on closer observation discovered it to be an enormous enor-mous creeping serpent. When this huge monster was within a few yards of him Col. Jones gathered some stones about the size of goose eggs and struck it several times in succession, and, strange to say, the blowB did not appear ap-pear to worry his snakeship to any great degree, as it never once left the surface of the water, but continued unconcerned un-concerned at a slow pace up stream. Col. Jones immediately seized his rod and line and scampered hastily to bis boat. It was only a question of a few minutes before he was in midwater and in hot pursuit of the object, which wa soon overtaken. When within close proximity he noticed tlie huge reptile seemed to be blind and apparently harmless. Fearing an attack, however, Col. Jones seized his rifle, and, taking aim at his head, fired. The bullet lodged in the collar bone and broke its neck. There was a slight movement ol the tail, a Mtrle slashing of water, and all was over, the monster floating down stream. Curious to learn the species of this peculiar reptile. Col. Jones made aliLsso from a skmt rope which he had in the boat and threw it around its body, thus enabling him to tow it ashore. A crit ical examination developed the fact he had captured a monster snake never before seen in this part of the country. It had a head resembling a long, fun nel shaped horn, the body being simi lar to small kegs joined together. Whai made matters more queer, each kei. seemed to have a bunghole or outlei (some of the queer knots being on the sides and some on the top). Hauling the tail on the bank, which was by no means an easy task, he opened one of the knots with a jack knife, and found it to be full of clear, purified oil. At this juncture Maj. Sam Hall, an old sportsman, who has hunted all over tlie world, came up and frantically gesticulating, he exclaimed, "John, your fortune is made. " Further he said it was a porpoise snake, and a rare specimen to be found thus far north. The oil in the kegs has since been found to be pure unadulterated porpoise oil. Twelve forty gallon barrels were filled. The oil has been shipped to Pittsburg. By way of explanation it should be said to tlie incredulous that this is a species of the snake family which obtains ob-tains oil by plunging its sharp head into the side of a purpoise and draining every drop of oil from its body. The snake was forty-three feet long, and Col. Jones has the kegs and bungs in his possession. St. Louis Globe- Tinmnnrnt |