Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1910 — Rather Venomous. [ARTICLE]

Rather Venomous.

A tenderfoot who visited the Yosem--te in the old days tuus related iris experience: The stage driver found out that he was. seriously afraid of snakes and immediately proceeded to makehis hair stand on end. '! Venomous reptiles? You bet. I don’t know what reptiles is, but them, snakes you can just bet your life is* venomous. Why, one day I was cornin’’ down here drivin’ a wagon when I catches sight of a snake in the brush* all ready l for a spring. My horses starts, an’ I whips ’em up fast to clear the snake, * don't you see, afore he* 1 could spring. He makes one clear spring, the snake does, an’ he misses the horses.” “That was lucky. But you—you—” “Lucky? You bet your life it was lucky. He missed the (horses, tho snake did, but he stuck his fangs clean through the wagon.” ■ “You don’t say!" “I do say, and maybe you don’t believe it, but it’s a fact. He stuck his fangs clean through that wagon, an' that wagon is swelled up so bad that we had to leave it by the wayside and take, the horses home.” '