ADVENTURE WITH A RATTLE SNAKE.
One. night the son of a colonel, while sleeping in camp upon the ground next to his father was awakened by a disagreeable, cold tremor running through him. He called to his father and said—'Tather. there is something the matter, with me. I think I have got a chill. I have a cold sensation in the small of my back, very strange, unlike any, thing I have felt before, and I am frightened."
To this the father, suspecting the? truth replied. "Lie perfectly still " ; then he jumped from his own place of repose, stood a few feet away; from the boy with his pistol in hia hand and said to him~
"When I count three, I want yp.U to jump t "-
The boy replied—"All right."
The colonel then counted three,; and the lad jumped to his feet, dislodging from his back an enormous rattlesnake which . had coiled thera for warmth, and the colonel shot tha serpent before it had time to strikQ the boy.—"New Penny Magazine."
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 120, 23 May 1903, Page 1 (Supplement)
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171ADVENTURE WITH A RATTLE SNAKE. Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 120, 23 May 1903, Page 1 (Supplement)
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