Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1881 — Dr. Storrs With the Snakes. [ARTICLE]

Dr. Storrs With the Snakes.

Buffalo Express. * ' ' The Rev. Dr. Storrs,of Brooklyn,who was out in the woods near the White Sulphur Springs, in Virginia, the other day, relates a peculiar snake story. During his walk he saw confronting him, upon a dead level with his own face, a rather unusual countenance. It was that of a large black snake, with a white ring about its neck. It stood up in his path with what appeared to be several rods of snake trailing hack in the perspective. The Doctor did not use his professional weapon of prayer, but stood paralyzed with fright. As be gazed terror-stricken, the snake disappeared like a flash, and reappeared in the path beliind him, his head curved over his until it again gazed into his benign dblintenance. The learned doctor “ducked, - yelled, and ecotted,” to use hisown language. He made his first mile in thirty seconds, and came in with a long lope upon the home-stretch of the second with his long sandy hair standing up like the fretful quill of the porcupine. An irreverent man who head of the Doctors adventure, said that he had a friend who once had them the same way. He was continuing in this slanderous way when some friends of the doctor came to the rescue and drove the irreverent min out.