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Show Boy Scout Kneiv How to Treat Snake Bite Greenwood Lake, N. J. William Haast, sixteen years old, a Paterson boy scout, spending the summer with other scouts at Camp Alhtaha, tramped four miles through rattler and copperhead copper-head country to a marsh, where he set about the peaceful pursuit of berry picking. Just when he was leaning over for a particularly ripe berry there sounded the whirr of a rattler. He didn't have time to draw out of the way and the snake bit him on the left forearm. Haast applied a hasty tourniquet above the bite. He had a bad tooth, so to suck snake poison was equivalent to being bitten. lie took a smnll razor blade from his pocket and slashed about the bite and sn.uee7.ed as much blood out as he could. Then he walked four miles through rattler country back to the camp. He was pretty sick that night. The doctor said that he had done all that could be done for the bite, and so he left him alone. Next day" William was well again and up and around. |