Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-05-28
A E9ttsesHakc Concert.

Talk about slskos," remarked an old lror-
| tlC!sman 10 conversation with Chronicle re-
porter lew evenings ago, there are moro
snakes 10 Arz ,na than ever existed in Ireland
before good old st. Patrick came along and
gavo them tho glapd bounce. Why, | have
beca everywhere wadcd Southern swamrs
when would have to stop minute. with the
water up to mp CHA. to allow of drove or
school OF water moccisIns or cotton mouths 10
20 BY; up in the far Northwest and British
America | have lived like fighting cock and
to tho Queen lasto for weeks at q timo on
snake $ csk, bu! saw moro rattesnakes down
10 Arizona last summer, was year ago than
ever before 10 my !Io, all put together. Down
there they don 20 in pairs. clusters. or drovcs.
but 10 columns, just fJr tho world hko the ohil
dron OF Israel get up and tramped out Of Egypt
With Moses and Aaron 10 tho vap, and Joseph.
With his circus c6at bilugirg up tho rear.
and friend were Gvor 10 tho Tombstone coun-
Try, among tho hills on proSptc tc;lug expedition.
There Wcro rattlesnakcs all around us, but they
did not seem to be very savage. We would
scare them up riGiug along. and they would
sneak away from our tracks like coyotes. Oar
day about Two o clock in the afternoon We wgr,
taking hill. and as the ascent was very steep.
our horses would stop every ioW pRccs t. b os'
Long before We got to tho summit We hea!u &.
strange nosc, or rather jareon of noises ap.
Darently Just on the other side, aud If wJ huti
been shot tho next moute, cou'd not have
told from whoLc, it emanated. Why, II wss
worse thao tho average church choir Wen.
we got to tho top after while. the nois1 i'll
creaslng eVcry step W. took up. 81 the ,,uc
h,N h,I h lit,I,
terrific. aud locking over the slde w ,as
s ght that took Tho cako. OI . littlo .trau
VI perhaps GlIy yards dInlebsloUs. about j s:s"n
~ i've ieet below IL, w,- a regular rattle s,akH
| E, uolon and ,uc1rt. Tho groucd aud s.nu.s
| were just yoiuw wish them aud IT their w.,
one tnere were al l:ust Id 700 soskcs IL the
gaGg. They w.rc Ui all ages aud 6lz 8, a6d how
| they crjOycd themselves. Tho two Oldest kl0g.
pins OF Tho crowd wer0 10 tho centre, at thu
| ether snakes wero all gathered about ,h IN.
II ,oh and every snake had cJiled himself uD iu
suoh q manner as to allJW their tails aud ra,lta
| good play, aud they were all rafting away a.
| if tor wages, and their wicked tCneu s wcrr
| darlug cut snd 10, Keeping up un accoBpui
ment TO their talls. We looked at tho ruckrt
| for about q MiGute aud tGtn with an awful
| u }uil,hing the rattil0g stopped. Tho lwo old
snakes reaIo1 thtr heads at Last ,hrcr t., (, ii
| me srcuud and looked alI around over TN" Ii ID
n q m.prer l1d!oailvo Of S1uersl Oh t,t,i,
ground. Ai;cr surveying thu siruilYo anu ap-
pMcGtiy seelug that eVoly member OF the snake
combination was ready tO1 tu,iuts', they s,uud.
cd noto by way OF tuning up a1h then &c
whole crowd commeucld their cooc:rt again. 1t
| took them ab0u: tcu mLu;cs 10 finish uu1 tluo
and wo mus; have watched them through nj
'ast dtzou. Alter whila 30, Urcl Of rho
busiuts aud rolled L rock dJHn 10 the ct.w3.
This broke up tho m2o.lUg without dlay, cnd
| as several OF the sD.Scs were crushed 10 death
tho others set MP an awful rafting and or !cd
away to their rGSpcciv, daus. hav, tc.u
among snakc8 all my lilo. but that VISA the frat
snake c,rc'rt / ever witac-s.l -LctdrW,
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