Show ANTIDOTE mail eria tenon itar 1 6 A road read party the usual gane gang of 0 from fifty to sixty kaars firs wan w employed gays a writer in the london spectator on the construction of 0 a 1 road in the tuella alley salley about thirty or more year years aeo ago I 1 in the course of their work ork they came upon ahugh a none stone which it ras as necessary to remote but beneath it vas was the bom hom 0 of t a large hack mack mamba well known to the neighboring inhabitants as being 0 d and therefore very venomous veno move the manaba mamba ie Is the moat most deadly of the couth louth african snakes and the super In anticipated some trouble over that rock he ile offered a bribe for the scia les skin and the glut I 1 bowd wow dl and eat down to bm bema ga tale take snuff but a allm youth sauntered forward and amid the jeer jeers and protestations of the rest declared himself equal to the task lie ile took from his neck what looked like a bit of stick chewed it swallowed s aral come some ol 01 it spat out the rest on his 1113 hands and proceeded to rub his glistening ellet ening brown body and limbs all over then taking up his stick ana wa chantlos chantl ns a tons song of defiance he ad danced wl wi b h G creat confidence and swagger to the bowlder boulder 1 I here he h I 1 houed routed up the mamba which in great fury at belne being disturbed bit him in the lip the boy took no notice ct of thi th bite but broke the snakes snake a back with his tick stick and aris bringing it to hi hit maate asked for his reward obtaining in which ba went back to his work and the bite of the reptile had no effect upon uon him whatever no bribe not even that of a cow better than any gold la in the eyes of r kaffir would induce the inactive native to disclose the secret of hta his ant dote which he said had been a I 1 down in bis his family tor for generation generations the snake mas as a very tery lont one and a old that it bad a mane it Is a we wel knon known fact that certain ot ol the zun have antidotes for the aare re dely der snake poison poisons which thy pre r a secret within their o on an fn |