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Show A TvimM llldv Uir hire. The Lite of tho Ci!a monst-r. a bidsous reptile that thrives in the deserts of Ai i aorta, is s.'dd tc h-.: f..t..l. An exception to the rule survive h-,vevor, in the person of Walter L. Vail, a c; tt le dealer, who was nipped on the hand by one of the hideous things not lo ig ago. Of his experience after being bitten ho s;Jd recently: "Some one in thd party tied a string &round my linger aud another around my wrist to stop the circulation of the poisoned pois-oned blood, and I took a big swallow of whisky, not a.s an ant idote, but as a .stimulant. .stimu-lant. Everybody expected to see me die right there, but I made up niy mind to live, if possible. I mounted my horse, and started ou a twenty-three mile ride to Panetella station, and I tell you it was a ride f ir life. I made those twenty-three miles iu just one hour aud twenty-five minutes. By the time I readied Panetella uiy back and my legs began to pain. I felt like a man who was under the influence of a strong current of elect ricity, end suffered greatly. An engine for which I had telegraphed tele-graphed on ray arrival arrived at the station sta-tion about an hour after 1 had reached it, and I wa conveyed to Tucson, a dist ance of Jweoty-tsijjkt miles. Medical science saved my life, but not until I had passed through ten da3-s of intense suffering.' |