the road in the direclion troin whence the sound came, 

 and that \va> the hist seen ol him until a search was made 

 over three liours after. He was found awa\- tVoni the 

 road, swoHcn and unconscious, liis tongue out and 

 swelled to such a si/e that his nmuth c-ould not he shut, 

 lie was hitten on his Iiands, his arms, his face and on his 

 legs, and some twenty feet away from him was a great 

 rattlesnake with its liack broken in three places, its 

 faugs inserted in its own hody, toimin^ a loop. A 

 brother ot Walter's, also a lad, hail found him and car- 

 ried him on his back for over a unle and a quarter, until 

 his strength ga\'e out and lie fell by the wa\"si(le. His 

 father ran out, found the two boys and at once started t(j 

 doctor the wounded one. Repeated doses of whiskv and 

 milk brought the boy back to consciousness for a while, 

 when, with fierce look and gesture, he would shoul, 

 "Pam'd snake! dam'd snake!" but coiuulsions set in 

 and he soon died. His body became spotted like the 

 snake's, with streaks up his chest and sides, and si)ots 

 upon his cheeks and brow. 



It is surmised that alter breaking the rattler's back 

 ,vith his stick he ruslied at it and caught it in his hands, 

 trying to crush its life out. i)ut that it bit him o\er and ox^er 

 again wherever it pleased, and linally fastened its fangs 

 into its own bod\', antl then the bo\' lell back in a swoon. 

 A wagon was sent post haste to Stroudsburg for a coffin, 

 but none cotild be had in that rustic town, and it was neces- 

 sary to send to Easton for one. And so the savage, plucky 

 boy has now been laid beneath the sod, and the neighbors 

 and visitors to this wild region revel in stories of snakes, of 

 snake bites and snake fights, and the men hereabouts look 



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