胡田村胡姓者，兄弟採樵，深入幽谷。遇巨蟒，兄在前，為所吞；弟初駭欲奔，見兄被噬，遂奮怒出樵斧，斫蛇首。首傷而吞不已。然頭雖已沒，幸肩際不能下。弟急極無計，乃兩手持兄足，力與蟒爭，竟曳兄出。蟒亦負痛去。視兄，則鼻耳俱化，奄將氣盡。肩負以行，途中凡十餘息，始至家。醫養半年，方愈。至今面目皆瘢痕，鼻耳惟孔存焉。噫！農人中，乃有悌弟如此者哉！或言：「蟒不為害，乃德義所感。」信然！
胡田村胡姓者，兄弟采樵，深入幽谷。遇巨蟒，兄在前，为所吞；弟初骇欲奔，见兄被噬，遂奋怒出樵斧，斫蛇首。首伤而吞不已。然头虽已没，幸肩际不能下。弟急极无计，乃两手持兄足，力与蟒争，竟曳兄出。蟒亦负痛去。视兄，则鼻耳俱化，奄将气尽。肩负以行，途中凡十余息，始至家。医养半年，方愈。至今面目皆瘢痕，鼻耳惟孔存焉。噫！农人中，乃有悌弟如此者哉！或言：「蟒不为害，乃德义所感。」信然！
In Hutian village there were two brothers named Hu who cut firewood for a living. Once they went deep into a dark valley and came upon a huge python. The elder brother, who was in front, was swallowed. The younger brother was terrified at first and was about to run, but when he saw his brother being devoured he flew into a rage, drew his woodcutter’s axe and hacked at the snake’s head. The head was wounded, but the snake went on swallowing. His brother’s head had already gone in, but by luck his shoulders would not go down. Desperate and at a loss, the younger brother seized his brother’s feet with both hands and pulled against the python with all his strength, and in the end he dragged him out. The python, in pain, went off too. He looked at his brother: his nose and ears had both dissolved away, and he was barely breathing. He carried him home on his back, stopping to rest more than ten times on the way. After half a year of doctoring and nursing, the brother recovered. To this day his face is all scars, and of his nose and ears only the holes remain. Ah! That among farmers there should be a younger brother who did a brother’s duty like this! Some say, “That the python did them no harm was because it was moved by his goodness and loyalty.” It is true!