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Show 82 slid out quiet and t hro'v d the snakes clear away among. t th ~ bu he:' ; for I warn •t going to let Jin1 find ont it was all n1y fault, not if I could help it. - --- --- ___ ;:;z JD.f AND THE SNAKE. Jirn sucked and sucked at the jug, and now and then he got out of his head and pitched around and yelled ; but every time he come to himself he went to sucking at the jug again. His foot swelled up pretty big, and so did his leg ; but by-and-by the drunk begun to come, and so I j udg d h(• wn all right; but I'd druther been bit 'vith a snake than pap':-> whi 'ky. Jitn 'vas laid up for four days and nights. Th<'n th sw 11- jng \vas all gone and he was around again. I 1nade up my 1nind I wouldn·t ever take aholt of a ·nake-. kin :1gain with n1y I .. ---- ....--... -- - OLD HANK B UNKER. hands, now that I see what had come of it. Jim aid he reckoned I would believe him next time. And hP said that handling a snake-skin was such awful bad luck that rnaybe we hadn't got to the end of it yet. He said he druther see the new moon over his left shoulder as much as a thousand times than take up a snake-skin in his hand. 'Yell, I "·as getting to feel that 0 :! |
