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Show BITTEN BY A SNAKE.. Tlml I. Vtlmt I lie Victim uf it l'rtllcl Joke Thought. "A good mnny J ears ii;o," kuid an ex- coiiKrchhiiiuntuupnrtj of coii(,'iehsmcii, "I vviiHliiOeorgln. A paity of undecided to no fiom Athiutu to Cluiksvlllo on hiirsvlMick. Tim Murpliv.iiti Irlshiiuin, wiih n lieutenant of the Atlanta po- lieefone. Ho vvunted logo. too.und we ' eoiutciited. On our way lo C'larl.sillle. t:uuuu;li tho niouiililllious seelloiiH uf the Htnte, wo billed two hirfro rattle- j Minkes. Muiphy vvasniiinediud frljfht ened. He wanted to know If niinUos I vvete plentiful, and wo (old him that 1 t he v were. We told him Hint lit Cliirl.cs- i villi.- they had oflen been found lu tho looms oi the Kilobit nt the hotel. Tim ! luited lo turn hack, nnd .o went on. I "We Iwicw that nt l hirkcsvllle a sn loonkeeper had a stuffed bull make, nnd we concoeted it plan to make Tim wli.li he had never lelt Atlanta. We got to the old-fashioned hotel all right. We were put In a bltf loom with fourlx-ds lu ll. We diiinlt a good dcnl, nod Tim was ineMellent spirits. It wnsiivvarm night and most of us iimlicr.bed. Tim pulled off everything but his shirt. Ha lny down fnce foremost across tho lied, j Then 1 tied a strinir nround the neck of the snake, put n 1W1 hook at the other end of the line nnd cautiously hitched the hook to Tom's hhlrt. "The next time he turned around ho got a rtliiopse of thi snake, "noly schinoki'!' he .veiled, 'look!" and then he made n da Ii for llir w Indovv, As h'l Jumped mil ut the window the (Ishhook prlciud l"iii lu fie la"!,. Ue utterel nil awful jell, sold he bad been bitten, nud went ll.ilnj? through (he snudy slreclH of the town dressnl In Coiiro style. We followed nnd tried to catch him. At ciery Mcp he mvoio thnt he hnd been bitten nnd thil he would dl". We overhauled Idol after tho wholo town lmij been aroused We took him back to the hotel nnd flllul him with whlaki, tolling him Hint ll was tho only euro for n snako bite. The net day lu-wont lu-wont to Atlanta nnd look n eoiirm nu-dor nu-dor ti phjhlclan fur make hlte. For years nflcr I hut Tim would brnr- nboul klllinir So smikra nt one lime, nud of hnvlntr been bitten lij one of Ihem. He did not learn of the trlcli for five yenis, nml then he threatened to take my life," Wnshlngton Star, |
