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"granger" tobacco ("long green" I suppose) 

 was made and the hand soaked in it, the to- 

 bacco leaves then being bound thickly over the 

 arm; third, whiskey was administered freely. 

 The arm and side of the body became consider- 

 ably swollen, but in a few days the boy was 

 playing about the yard as usual. J. C. says he 

 saw the snake, which was killed soon after in- 

 flicting the bite, and that it was "a copperhead 

 sure as shooting." This once common poison- 

 ous snake has in recent years become very 

 scarce in central Indiana the more common 

 but harmless spreading viper being often mis- 

 taken for it. 



After talking for an hour I took the bucket 

 and we went over to the spring for my evening 

 supply of water. It emerges from the base of 

 a ledge of limestone and flows a steady stream 

 year in and year out. A thermometer placed 

 in it showed the temperature to be just 50 F., 

 the air being 84 in the shade. It is a very 

 pure limpid water and the old house in which 

 J. C. lives was built seventy years and more 

 ago in the out-of-the-way place where it stands, 

 solely because this spring purled forth from the 

 hillside. J. C. claims that one 0. H. told him 

 that an old Indian trail once passed by the 

 spring and that when he (0. H.) was a boy his 

 mother and he met several Indians near there, 



