Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1878 — Beheading a Rattlesnake. [ARTICLE]

Beheading a Rattlesnake.

A young man named Penny, while out hunting his steers, barefoot, the other day, stepped on the head of a large rattlesnake. He had his heel on the snake’s head, and, being afraid to move, did not know what to do for some time, while the hideous thing was writhing and squirming and vigorously lashing the youth’s legs. Penny was badly frightened, but recovered presence of mind sufficient to take out his knife and reach down and cut off the snake’s head. Cherokee Georgian.