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ram was sent to this city, and a special train 
ing a skillful surgeon was dispatched, who 
reached the stricken man, but in vain, 
■n the St. Augustine doctor reached the 
nt’s bedside he was swelling fast and vornit- 
i blood. The man knew he was doomed, and 
iig his friend to him, begged him not to 
I V too much ado over his fate, as his taking 
vas by an accident that might befall anyone, 
the dying man: “The snake that bit me 
no rattle (it had been torn off by some 
,| ., a l in a .fight, most probably) and gave no 
fing of its presence, or I should not have 
led on it. The death I have to die will be 
infill one; but don’t worry—I shall bear it 
; man should do. I have had a good time 
ing with my friends here in Florida, and 
et leaving them, but—” The sentence was 
1 .;r finished; a fearful convulsion shook the 
irtunate man, and when it passed he was too 
< to talk. After enduring the most terrible 
: iy. just as the sun was setting behind the 
1 s death came and released hifn from his long 
-s of hopeless suffering. A cablegram was 
to the young man’s father, a rich London 
:er, with news of his son’s death, and ask- 
for instructions as to disposition of the re- 
is. The answer flashed back was to “bury 
there.” 
happened that on one of their hunting trips 
• 2 two hunters came across a rising knoll of 
. near the river, surrounded by large, cypress 
■ on which was a grave—evidently that of 
ild. At the head of the grave was a small 
e wooden cross. The victim of the snake 
remarked the beauty of the spot for a final 
ng place. And there, near the white cross, 
ng the moss garlands of the Halifax cypress 
1, they buried this unfortunate ne-er-do-well 
of an English aristocrat. The companion 
sucked the poison from the wound had a 
it abrasion of the skin in his mouth, and 
’■■red for some weeks with a mild sort of 
lysis of the jaws. A few months after this 
■returned to England, where he soon died, 
iderstood he never fully recovered from the 
k of the tragic death of his friend, 
linking the Seminole Indians might be some- 
t immune from the poison of rattlesnakes, I 
d Billy Bowlegs, on one of his trips from 
■ 2 Okeechobee to Palm Beach, to sell his 
t plumes, if “rattlesnake bite bad for In- 
> ?” Billy said, very thoughtfully, as though 
2 of his tribesmen had met death from snake 
: “If snake bite Indian good, Indian no 
well.”—St. Augustine Record. 
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