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Show A SNAKE STORY. The Stubenville tOhio) Herald stys: "A few days since a youth named Hart, residing in the lower suburbs of the city, was bitten, it is supposed fatally, "by one of the most poisonou.-reptiles poisonou.-reptiles a large copperhead snake. The lad has been in a very precarious condition since, and his blood seems to be completely intu-ed with the venom of the snake, so poisonous was the bite. The snake escaped, much to the un-easiuess un-easiuess of the people of the neighborhood, neigh-borhood, who instituted a search without success. An employe of the Jefferson Iron Works, named Wells, hearing of the circumstance, volunteered volun-teered to catch the snake, if he was anywhere in the wood, by smelling it out. Many, being without faith as to hiB ability to do what he claimed, . accompanied the man with the singular organ of smell to the place where the snake was last seen. Wells immediately took up the scent of the reptile, ibllowed ibl-lowed the meander along the creek to the wood, and in the incredible space of half an hour, had captured and dispatched him, although many had scoured the country i'or the same purpose. pur-pose. It is said this species of snake has a peculiar smell, partaking of ihe odor of fresh cucumbers, and that an expert snake hunter can tell of the venomous reptile's presence a considerable consider-able distance away; but few, however, have the faculty to follow the scent sufficiently close to catch the creepers." |