The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-31

is suspended wire slip moose. A snake
slghted-and there is sure to be any
number in sight on a, sunny day IN sum-
rner-aH he has to do is to hold 1t over
the snakes head. 1t will then at once
raise its head several inces so as to en-
able it to look around better and see what
is going on. Now is the time Mr.. Bartlett
gets in his work. With a hasty throw the
moose is dropped over the viper's head and
suddenly jerSed up, and the snake is
a prisoner Mr.. Bartlett was formerly
afraid of their bite, believing with many
others that the touch of its fangs is
deadly. He has learned from expert
ence that there is nothing more harm
full about the bite of the adder than the
Inconvenience caused by the small lacera-
ton, the same as would be caused by
the bite of a cat or dog.
One thing which causes Mr.. Bartlett
any amount of perpleXity is as to the best
method to be used in killing them, as they
die exceedingly hard OF course IT is very
essential that the skin be kept intact and
not bruised or laoerated. For the first
two years Mr.. Bartlett killed his snakes
by crushing their heads, but it frequently
occurred that the snake became bruised
in its handsomest parts, running 1t for the
purpose for which it was sought. Last
year it was recommended that he kill
them with chlOroform. This he tried,
ana dltlOuSn the Sndkef sue
cumbed at last, 1t was a long and tedious
process. 1t is also more or less expen-
sive, when it is considered that some days
he has as many as thirty or forty to kill.
He has tried drowning them, but never
succeeded In mastering up enough pa
tence to remain and see them die.
The snakes come out from the crevices
and holes in the ledge, where they make
their winter quarters, about the LIST of
April, or as soon thereafter as the frost
gets out of the ground and the air becomes
warm and summerish. Not snake, how
ever, is molested til early fall. First, for
the reason that ii is in June and July
that they lay their eggs and raise their
young. Then about this time their winter
dress or skin is shed, it requiring some
little time for the new pelt to get into
prime condition. If killed as soon as the
change of skin is made the coloring is
found to be duller than few weeks later,
and the beautiful mottled marking, like
those of the alligator, less regular and
plainly defined.
Mr.. Bartlett talked most Interestingly
to the reporter regarding the adders' eggs
and the subsequent young. 1t was very
rare that their eggs were to be seen, but
occasionally a nest would be discovered
lying in some secluded but sunny spot the
she adder curled up around them, gazing
stupidity around with sullen eyes fixed
with a most freezing glare. The eggs
are oval in shape, of blush tint, and fire.
quently hung together in a manner similar
to a string of beads. 1t is extremely rare
he ever gets sight of the very young, and
this leads him to believe that immediate
ly after being Matched the young are taken
into the belly of the parent snake, where
they are carried till they have developed
sufficiently to look out for themselves,
when they are expelled. He has read
in natural history books. he says, that 1t
Is myth pure and simple about a snake
gobbling up her young when excited or
alarmed He has, however. frequently
seen an old female, who was crawling
about the ledge with some dozen or more
OF her young open her mouth and with
one fell swoop eat all her nu-
merous progeny and then scam