Judge Newki K's First Snake Story

Judse Newkirk claims to be the only man who ever took a rattlesnakc- on Eubsorrptton. When the judge was trying to run a republácan paper lip in the wijds ol tin' Kentucky tttoiuitaiTiB come years ago, a niai'ivr di upped In wiiih i ratt'jesnake in a bos and wauted tao braüe it for sis in ïili's liuhsci-ipii n. As Newkirk took amytiing In those cüays, and was gLad in get H, hie atruck a. bargain. Be kept iit in a glass covered I: ix for .sevei-al in()iUh., but one night ii got out and treed tlii' editor on top oí lii.-í desk. He fiinially managed to gel hio'.d oi' the office broom, and break l'ta Binakeshiip's fcick, after wlii.-h i was ilis]iatclu'(l. Thebroom was rui'ined. Imt Xevkl"k svascured of a likLiiiií for tliat kind of eurrency.-