Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1880-05-12

- Oil 1rOnVeTsuU ~ Nv iSatloii
with a Chronicle $1,000 a few ev-
enings ago, "thet ~ - pre- snakes
in Arizona than osee e11led in Ire
land before goa - & patrick
came along aud gave theD eGrand
bouuce. Why, | havo ~ evogey;
waded Southern swanpo veoo .
would have to stop = minute, wsth
the water up to my chin, TO allow Of
q drove or school Of water moccasins
or cotton months ~ 70 NJ; MP in the
fAr NosthWest and British Amesca
| have lived like afghting cook and
to the Queens taste for weeks 81 a
time on snakes steak; bat ] saw
more rattlcsnakes down In Arizona
last summer than ever before ia my
M, sil put together. Down there
they don't 60 IN pairs, clusters or
tlsovaa but 10 columns, just for the
world like the children OF Israa got
Up mod trs,nped out of Egypt with
Moses md Aaron 10 the van, sru
Joseph, with his circus coat, bring
Jug up the rear. and friend were
Over in the tombstone country,
among the hills, on prospecting
expedition. There were rattle.
snakes all around us, but they did
not seetn to be very savage. We
wonld scare them up riding along,
ind they would sneak away from our
track like coyotes. One day about
Two O'Clock 10 the afternoon we we're
taking q hill. and, az the ascentwas
very steep, our horses would stop
every few PAGES to blow. Long be.
fore we got to the summit We heard
u strange noise, or rather Jarg0n OF
wcfsee, apparently inst on the other
side, aud il We had been shot the
next minute, could not have told
from whence it emsBatst. Why, it
was worse than the average church
choir. Well, we got to the top nf.
GRANVILLE, the noise increasing every
step we took up. BY the time we
had got there it had become little
short Of terrific, and looking down
over the side we saw a sight that
took the cake. On u little plateau
of perhaps fifty yards dimensions,
about regular rattiesnake reunion
and concert. The ground and stones
were just yellow with them, and If
there was one there were at least
ten thousand snakes in the gang.
They were of all ages and sizes, and
how they enjoyed themselves. The
two oldest kingpins of the crowd
were in the center, and the other
snakes were all gathered about
them. Each and every snake had
coiled himself up i'll such manner
as to allow their tails and ra,tles
good play, and they were all rafting
awayas if for wages, and their wick
ed tongues were darting out aud In,
keeping up an accompaniment to
their tails. We looked at the rack.
ct for abuut "A minute, and then
with an awinl flourish the rnitling
The two old snakes rear.
cd their heads ut least three feet of
the ground aud looked all around
over the field in n manner indica
tive of a General on II battle-ground.
After surveying the situation and
apparently seeing that every mem
Der Of tho snake combination was
ready for business, they sounded n
note by way OF tuning up and then
the whole crowd commenced their
concert again. Ii took them about
ten minutes TO finish one time, and
We must have watched there through
at least q half "A dozen. After Il
while | got tired Of the business and
rolled n rock down in the crowd.
This broke up the meeting without
delay, and az several OF the snakes
were crushed To death the others
set up an awful rafting aud crowded
away to their respective dens. |
have been among snakes all my life,
but that was the first snake cOnccIt
| ever wituesscd."-J eddriHe (COi J
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