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The LAST SNAKE SToRY.-We should like 10
hear Yankee Hill drawl through the oriental por-
ton of the following dialogue, we copy from the
Picayune:


i reckon this ERE country of yourn is pretty
consideration productive, stranger, isn't it?' said
a down-easter, who had just arrived in one of the
new Mississippi settlements, to a person whom
he met, one of the regular meet axe breed.


There's not such another country between
this and the State of Baneome, in North Carolina,
replied the Mississippi settler.


Raise agood deal of eottihg, eh'


Lots of it,


ALFRED quantities Of game in this section, I
'spose.'


Considerably of sprnkling, specially
snakes


What sort of snakes!'


Rattle-snake and Copper-heads'


Oh! get out! du tell, want tn know if they're
so almighty thick!'


Rather Dad and went out this nserAine
snake hunting--ked only cord and quarter
but then it was a bad snake morning, and you
must make some allowances


'Oh1'lI make any 'lowances and tracks ont Of
the settlement at the same time. But say, jest
tween ourselves, if it had rally been good morn
ing, how many cords du you imagine you'd
killed?'


Five is abost an average


Fiue! You don't say so,'


Yes do, though


Which is my shortest way out Of this ere
settlement have strong ideas Of slopfng, forth
with
Keep right straight ahead,
sWeIi. wish YOU good day. Give my best
'spects to your dad, and tell him l hope he'll
have better snake-weather next time he goes out,
I'm o-p-h.'