The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-07-03

thersI Just look at her eyes and tell me II you
don't eco Kindness and sympathy there, D2
ron know the snste Is q lIeellsd crestuIei !
60 the snake Is the accepted typo OF cuSsednos!
and strike at mel Yes, seyerRltimcs, wheE the
snake was new and We wero unncquainted. l
can got on good terms with a snake in an hour
with a new dog. While I'm getting acquainted
have 20 look out That's al. rattlor 70 al
II he Is mad and means To strike his tangs In
.ou no will coil and rattle like The devil. Attic
open. always snatch The rascal ABOUT the
neck when he Is Ike that. or l get out OF strikS..
.ako very quick work; You see I'm not quick.
about being with snakes that's dead sure, 1t is
%rattiers like this. II | should oct drunk and
step on q snake or hurt II unnecessarily l think
MIR. Snake would retaliato at once. / nm al.
ways careful not to go stepping about in horc.
I'm told every, hour. almost every minute IN
lots of people tell mc / am committing construct.
Two suicide by being with tho snakes. but !
don't believe 1t. oh, I'm more careful than 1t
There is a heap Of ignorance among people
about rattlesnakcs. Four tImes out of ten a
ANYTHING or any person. That does not bother
tho reptile. SEQ that gray-strlped fellow over
here in that heap of snakssi We'll. ! was show.
dondo beach last Sunday and / accidentally
broke off ono of the snakes fangs; they are very
delicate and brittle. We'll, | was looking In
the old fellows mouth this morning and l saw
that a new fang had sproutcd where the former
one had broken. There are plenty of i~ncipient
fanEs lying In the jaw only waiting for q chance
like that to come forward and. DO In line for bust
ness. They grow very fast, and in the course
OF two or three days n rRttlesnake that has lost
Its fangs is reiitted with a brand.now pair. This
Is n good thing to remember, for 1t is the popu'
lar belief that Il rattler Is made harmless by OK
tracing its venom fanEs.. Tho only way to ron
der one OF these reptiles harmless, besides kill
ing II, Is to apply n red.hot iron to the cavities
left by the fangs.
Il have learned that snakes are mighty per
ishablo property. l used to think they were
tough. Two weeks ago my partner and ! had
ll5 %rattlers. Now we have just .7s. All the
rest have died. They get sick and die beforeI
when a rattler is ailinR. They are always cold
and even when well they will lie as II in a doze
for hours. Most Of my snakes havo died be-
cause too great weight was upon them for hours.
DO what l can tho snakes will get together in
piles and tho under ones have to suffer. See
how ! have to pull the heaps of snakes apart
every little while. II | didn't do that I'd lose
all the rest of the ~rattlcrs.
Where did we get the snakesl Down In Ari-
IONA. We got ll5 snakes in two weeks. On
the desert, In the cactus Chaparral between
YUM and MRricopa, there are thousands and
thousands of rattlesnakCs. You can have no
down there. Partner and ! put on high boots
and leather gloves when we went out TO get the
rattlers. We carried coarse jute bags along,
and with a prongcd. forked stick we caught the
reptiles just back of their fiat heads. We had
learned that trick from the Yuma Indians