Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1891 — A Bad Bite. [ARTICLE]

A Bad Bite.

Mrs. Reel —“You have been drinking, Mr. R. Look at your nose.” Mr. Reel—“l—l’ve been fishing, you know, my dear, and—and fishermen always Have to take something along for snake bites, you know, my dear.” Mrs. R.—But you haven’t been following a mountain stream; you were out on the ocean, after bluefish.” Mr. R.—“ Y-e-s, my dear. I-I was bitten by a sea-serpent, my dear.” —New York Weekly