The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-07-04
rom SNAKES AND a GREEN rnoe.
The Corpiete Essential Facts IN ReGsrd 20
Each Of Them.

SCRANTON. July 10. h Meserole. who
pcddles tin through Sulliv van county. sat down
on a fallen tree near Lopez Greek . few days
ago, whilo letting his horse feed on the road
side grass. He was smoking his pipe and
whiting away on pine stick. when oil oil
sudden something struck the left side OF his
sack coat and mado tin box in his pocket
rattle. Glancing around quickly Fodder
Moserole beheld an object that startled him SO
that he yelled like an Indian and jumped
twelve feet from the tree The sight covered
his skin with goose pimples 10 a twlnklng.
md his face became as white rs milk. for
within foot from whore ho had been sitting
lay q coiled copperhead. Tho snake had loft
poison In his coat. and Il would have struck
at him again In a second II he hadn't jumped
When tho scared peddor came to his
senses he got sword cnne from his
cart. pinned tho reptile to the log, and filed
its poisoned mouth with fine. dry tobacco. hav-
ing his revenge by seeing the snake die in ex-
auisite agony. Then he nscertained that the
copperhead had crawled out Of q crack in tho
log. and poking In the crack with his cane he
quickly routed out another copperhead. APP
pnrently the mate of the dead one. The snake
turned on him. and instead OF pinning 1t to
the log he threw handful Of tobacco in its
mouth and eyes, and had the satisfaction Of
witnessing the most lively contortions he Ind
ever seen reptile 60 through with. The COP
perhead writhed to tho middle OF the road.
where 1t died in three minutes.
One morning last week Philander b. Keith OF
Lehigh Glen heard two-year- colt snorting
and screaming In the pasture. and going to
the barn door he saw the colt stamping in the
grass, while three horses and some cattle had
stopped grazing and were staring at the ac-
tive colt in apparent wonder. Mr.. Keith ran to
the spot and found that the colt had Stained
away, and the horses and cattle chased him
around the lot until he dropped on his kn utS
discovered that the colt had been struck on the
upper lip by the rattlesnake. evidently while
ssUn was nt e
he began to stamp on the reptile the moment
he received the wound In his fight with tho n,
tho snakes deadly fangs; His head. neck. and
legs swelled almost to bursting and in less
' ON g June n u Levi A. capsaddle Of Goldenrod
Mountain had his straw hat pulled from his
head by q sauey rattlesneke. MI. ciapsaddie
sai 81 Racket Fails 70 make short out
across Hickory Ridge when the rattlesnake
ing rock on a level with his head. The reptiles
iangs got stuck in the brim Of Mr.. Clapsaddle's
tn
hold and rolled sixty feet before he stopped.
the ledge few yards south Of his former
route he mashed the rattler with stone and
recovered his hat.
Early in May ,green-headed frog annoyed
Mrs. Celda Morehouse OF Slagville: Wyoming
county. several times q day by hopping around
the well curb whenever she went to draw
nuisance that one evening. Mrs, Morehouse
put 1t in q pail carried 1t half a mile away. and
puddle. In the morning the neighborly frog
was at the we'll when Mrs. Morehouse went for
has vail of vnfar nd haf
lugged, it to q swamp. mile distant. and left
1t on q log. Two days afterward the frog APP
peared at the we'll once more. and Mrs. More.
house put it into her buggy the next day and
residence. She thought she had got rid Of the
sociable ereenheader at last. but four DAYS
back to the we'll again. where it met Mrs.
Moreh?Mse with Pheasant blink and friendly
Knife and went out to slay the frog. spotted
fellow was crying SO hard that Mrs. More
houses heart soitened, end she saved its life
house has made pct Of the faithful frog.