Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-05-09
A R,ttlesnake Concert.
[Leadyille (Col.) Chronlcle.l

Talk about snakes" remarked AN old
frontiersman in conversation with a Chron
c ertporter II few evenings ago There are
more snasB 10 Arizona Than ever existed
in ireland before good ST. Patrick came
along and gave them the grand bounce.
4 Why, l have been evaryw here; waded
southern swan ps when i would have TO
stop minute with the wafer up to my
chin, to allow, n drove or school of waleI
moccasins or gotten mouths to 20 by; up
in the lar north west and British Aue lea
have lived like fl khting-cock and To the
queens Taste fJr weeks.a at time on snake
81 ak but l saw more ksnaks down
III Ariz ma. last summer was a year
ago, than ever before in my life, ali
put toget 1er.a Down there they dJn't 20
10 4ir4, clusters ordr ives but ia columns
Just for the world like the children of L.
rsel got Z and iram rel out of Egypt with
Mos aud A 4ron ia the van. aud Joseph
with his clrcus coat, bru g,ng up the
rear. J. and n TREND we're over ia toe Tomb
tone country among the hills on n pros
pecting xpedng There were rattlesna kes
all around US, but they did not seem t. he
very savage We would scare them up by
riding eloig, andsthey woul :,ne X away
from our tracks like clyotes. Oae dsy,
about z O'clock in tie afternoon; wa were
tski"g bill, and as the ascent WAS very
sharp, our hores would stop every few min
.utes to blow. Long before we gos to the
summit we he I'd a strangs noise, or rather
jargon of noises apparently on the otner
side, and if we had been shot the next
minute, could not have told from whence
t emAna cd. Why it was wore than the
average church choir. Well, we got to
The top after while, the noise increasing
every step We TOOK up. BY the time We
had got there it had. .become little short
of terrific, and hooking down over the
side We saw sightthat took the cake. %
little plateu of perhaps hftp yards dim
sions, ABOUT seventy five ieet low US, Was
Il reg lar rattlesnaKe reu ion c. cert Tn
ground and s.oues W re just vel ow with
them, and ii there was On thero were ut
least 10000 snakes in the gang. They
were of all agos and sizes, and how they en-
joyed themselves Tue two ulJest king
pins OF the crowd were in the center, a. d
the other snakes,we all pgathered a o At
them. Each and every snbk, had cooled
himself up in such manner rs to allow
tails and rattles good play, and they were
all rafting away rs if for we ges, aud their
wicked tongues were dan, ing on: and in,
K eping up an commandment to their
tails. We looked at the racket for about
Il minute. and then with an awful hour ish
the rafting stopped. The two old snake,
reared their heads at least three feet from
the ground. and looked Il over the Id
ia a manner Indie two of a general n
battle.g Ound. AT surviving the silu-
alton and apparently seeing that ever
member of the snake combination wa+
ready for business, they sounded II note bv
way IF tuning up, and tho whole crowd
com N enced their concert again. 1t took
them about ten nit uLes to fnish one tune.
and we must have watched them the
thvough ut least u half dozpn Alter awhile
| got Tired of the business, and rolled
rock down in the crowd. THIS broke up
the meeting without de sy, and, as several
of the snakes were crushed to death, the
o,he s s tup an awful rat ling and crowd
ed away to their respective dens. l have
been among snakes all my life, but that
was the first snake concert ever witness
az. - gr rg . ss- s.4a a. .4 H. AM ALL