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Show SUAKE "BIT" HIM, BUT 'CURE' IS NOT FORTHCOMING (By International NewsServlce.) SAN FRANo.CO, May 1G "Gimme "Gim-me a drink of whiskey, quick! A snake just bit mo." . " ' Breathlessly Frank Dorraco burst through the door o. Central Emergency hospital and addressed this plea to attendants at-tendants in charge. "Interesting, if true," commented Dr. Calmann Silbermann. "In such cases the antidote is incision, cupping, cauteriza'tion and hypodemic Injection of drugs." "Where do you get that stuff,'' agonized ag-onized Durraco. "You don't believe mo. Well, here's your snake." And he pulled from his trouser leg a live, 'struggling three-foot gopher snake. "I'm a snake catcher by trade," he elucidated. "A friend of mine offered me a drink of good whiskey if 1 brought him a three-foot gopher snake. Well, here it is. and I want a drink of whiskey." "Where's your friend?" queried the doctor. '.'Can't find him," mourned Dorraco. "That's why I'm here." "Sorry, but.wc hnvc none," said Dr Silbermann. "You'd better keep on looking for your '.friend. - . |