Show NATURE STORY FROM PROM ALABAMA Being almost whipped to death by a snake Is the experience claimed by J J. J A A. Mordant of Marshall Marshal county count Mr Mordant says he had been calling on his pastor and when walking toward home through a cotton patch he came came upon a snake that measured about thirteen feet Ctet In length Seizing a rock he threw It at the tho snake and when the tho reptile showed fight he turned and ran but the snake overtook him The snake mad made two coils colls around the mans man's bod body and began to whip him Mordant had nothing to defend himself with but a n small knife and for a n. time he hena was waa doubtful whether he would he be whipped or squeezed to death before he could Inflict a mortal wound on the rep- rep tile Almost exhausted ted he ho sank ank to his knees knees and succeeded in cut cutting tins tins- the snakes snake's head from its body bOlh He Ho was exhausted by b the tho experience but after recovering he came upon the mate of the dead snake This time there was no battle because Mr Mordant WAS the best Democrat |