Salt Lake Herald | 1891-02-15 | Page 5 | On the Platform

On the Platform We had an hour to wait at a railroad junction in Louisiana and four or five of us sat down in the shade on the edge of the platform and hung our legs over It was very comfortable and we were smoking and talking when a man with a rope in his hand evidently looking for a stray mule came out of the bushes opposite us and stood looking up tad down the track By and by he directed Lis gaze toward our feet but we didnt mind him until ha drawled out You all there Well queried one That upyer feet We histed without waiting to ash why and then looked over to see a rattlesnake rattle-snake about seven feet long just coiling himself for a strike after having crawled out from under the platform A handy grindstone was dropped down on him and when some one thanked the native ha called bock Some men who hey lost a mule and hunted fer him three days would hey bin onery about it but tbars nothin doggone mean about meDetroit Free Press