Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1890 — Saved by His Courage. [ARTICLE]

Saved by His Courage.

▲ boy living near Nassau City, Fla., was out fire-hunting a few nights when he planted his foot on something soft and slippery, and at onoe awakened the warning notes of a rattlesnake. By the flickering glare oi bis torch h& saw that he had trod upon the reptile* but fortunately had planted his foot oh his neck just back of the head, and though it folded its slimy coils around his ankle and struck out with its fangs with lightning-like rapidity it wall unable to turn its head to do mischiet The lad had presence of miiid enough to keep his foot firmly planted upon its neck while with ax in hand he several the head from the body.