Show IKIIlltUUs Oi A ulllIT llstllc With Stnkr trio lorlih 11Ild mars = Ishlng nnd hunting ere recognlMtl as Ilorlda favorite pastimes Among the many experkncsH which have bn met with recently none excels the horrible ordeal which Iwo men from the North went through a few dit I ago says a St Augustine dispatch The two left town on a fishing tour to go about sixty miles from here All along the stream Is I a barren nlldernes of scrubby undergrowth under-growth bowlders rocks and tlon s grlteing tired and loreftwted after their Jays journey the men made tlitmwlies comfortable on the surface of a mOM grown rock After Imarly meal they both fell asleep One was shortly alter ward awakened by something choking him and feeling found his strange collar < o be cold 1 and slimy It was avery a-very fine specimen of the snake species hfrn was girding I I his I throttle Tara monster waj soon dispatched and the two men were about to lie down again after ridding tliemwlvet ol the Intruder when they found themselves literally surrounded bv the reptiles They were going to decamp for n more longenial climate but when about to leave the rock hissing and rattling became male nudlble and It was but a lew minulcs until It was ns loud as or dlnary toned cancel fire men Undine that they were surrounded broko branches from the stubby undergrowth of pines and commenced Inning the urlthlng sea of darling hissing makes Kealltlng that they had an allmght job they secured rock and larger sticks and began killing the reptiles In earnest The noise teemed to awaken the whole birren waste into a hissing and rattling forest Hichnnn began the tau hter with redoubled vigor vainly Ujing to fight their way to the stream tome hundred yards away don hill Iney would gain n few paces of the tanned only lo bo driven back again to the rock The rattling and hissing became so loud that their voices became scarcely audible unless close together The hair on both men heads stand up like brinies while the arms were bloodstained to the elooI The Mi I lIch from the snaky Uiltlilield ins almost unbearable and Mckcnlnjc In tile extreme Wilhin three hours alter the hm snake Ita I been killed hundreds if not thousands had met a similar fate Roth men were badly bitten and their legs I and arms began aweHint rapidly Tne hours wore slowly bv and the slaughter con tinued l At last morning came and hfle I the curtain of night rum a most appalling scene I but Rlty feet all around the > Uric rock lay a heap of Itunned squirming and dud slakes and at far ai they could see all around the barren warms was a seething tide of reptiles that cam toward to-ward lnICI rock with middenlng fury With difficulty they managed to reach Ihrl rI tl the river and toon arrived I at a cabin where metlteal attendance was given the I hair on both seen heads had turned aim oat while during the nlhl and It will bo weeks Iwfore that can fully recover from the effects of this feoilul encounter |