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I felt a Sort of Chilnefs when I heard the Sound ; 
becaufe I had a conftant Thought, that if ever I was 
bit, my Life was at ail End, Without Stop I tore 
up the Stones, refolving to flay my Murderer : At 
lad I found Kim, crufh’d his Head to Pieces with a 
Stone, took him up in my left Hand, and ran to my 
Quarters, fucking the Wound on my right Hand as i 
went, and fpitting out the Poifon. 
This kept it eafy ; but my Tongue and my Lips 
became ftiff and numb, as if they had been froze : So 
getting quickly home “ I am bit with a Rattle- 
“ fnakc, and there lies- my Murderer!” cafting him 
down on the Thrcfhold. 
All Hands were aloft in a Minute 5 feme for one 
Thing, fome another, as they had feen or known in 
the like Affair:; and none feenfd lets concern'd than 
myfelf, as I thought by their Actions. 
The fiift Thing applied was a Fowl; his Belly ript 
up, and put on my Hand alive, like a Gantlet, and 
there tied faft. This drew out fome of the Poifon; 
for immediately he fwell’d, grew black, and flunk, 
I kept my Elbow bent, and my Fingers up, to keep 
the Poifon from my Arm. — — Thus I walked about, 
and fet fome of the Company to make a Fire on the 
Green ; for, as it fell out, there were 7 or 8 People 
there more than our Family. It was done quickly, 
and there we burnt the Snake. 
Another Hand this while had got fome Turmerick. 1 
This we bruifed well, Tops and Roots ; fo made a 
Plaiftcr, and bound it round my Arm, to keep the 
Poifon in the Hand : But Night came on, or elfe, I 
believe, it had never gone further than the Hand ; for 
this kept the Arm lecurc, till Midnight, or paft. 
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