Newspaper clipping:A serio-comic scene was witnessed in the back yard of Napoleon Keisters Eastern House
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- Newspaper title
- Wayne County Democrat
- Date of publication
- 1878/05/22
- Page number
- 3
- Organization
- Industry
- Accommodation and Food Services > Accommodation
- Subject tags
- Napoleon Keister, Eastern House, Turtles
A serio-comic scene was witnessed in the back yard of Napoleon Keister's Eastern House last Thursday. Several boys had a snapping turtle there, a regular Killbuck fellow, and were aggravating the bird-animal by poking him with sticks, etcetera and so forth, making him as mad as the average snapper can get and survive. Finally one of the boys picked up the turtle, while another ten-year old urchin, with bravado, spat in its face, so to speak, which insulting act the turtle was quick to avenge by shooting out its snakey neck and like a flash lit savagely on the wicked boy's lower lip, fastening there as if forever. Then there was consternation all around. The one who held the turtle dropped him and ran yelling away; the boy on whose lip the animal clung like death howled with affright and pain. Several men came to his relief, and could only release him by cutting off the turtle's jaw. In a few minutes his lip was a big as an egg, and the next time he insults a turtle in that way it will be when it is tamed into a plate of soup.