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says I. '' ` Good and plenty , ' says he . ` My arm hurts me already . ' `` We got busy right away and took him up to the hospital where Bonavita is now . Say , he was a very thin man and you can see that I 'm no lightweight ; but by midnight the right side of his body and his right arm and leg were swollen to my size , and in the morning all of the swollen part was as black as a coal . He was suffering terribly , and I tried to get hold of the Arab snake doctor but could n't locate him , so I wired to Rochester for Rattlesnake Pete . He came down and a mighty interesting man he is , but he could n't do anything which ` Doc ' up at the hospital had n't done , and it was five days before my man was out of danger . He was not a drinking man -- I finished having drunkards around my show a good many years ago -- and the whiskey took right hold of him and pulled him through .