Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-05-07
THE KING SNAKE.
DOES HARM TO NO CINE, CUT KILLS
POISON REPTILES.

Ta.tlers and Coppcr!ends Are TIE Ere
IT. 1oves TO Tactlc-iIe Eats "A Nous
"a or n Toad after Each Battle to Prepar
. Him For tie Noxt Encounter.
The distant murmur CT the waterfall
a The hum Of the Ices among the flowers
. made me feel lazy, and, laying asid'
NV Gshing rod, stretched myself q
the solt spring grass under weeping
willow and watched the blue, CLOUD
spockod sky. had almost fallen ASLEEP
when was aroused ly voice inquir-
ing, "Kotched emmy fish, mister::'
Looking up, saw a typical noun
taiucor and assured him fhad not.
81 say, mister, this here is power
full had kentry fur snakes One bit Jim
Sloan's bay mare last night an week
afore last another lit Sally Milligan.
Some on 'em air powerful pizen, spc-
cially the rattlers an ccppors, an that
minds me, eff WIZ yel.~.f, move
little further from that ere copper.
He amt zactly perty to lock at, an ef
ye WIZ to rifle i'm with yer boot he
lnout git vicious.
Long before that speech had ended |
lad turned somesault bacl;v ward, which
caused the Mountainoor great deal Ct
genuine pleasure TO behold. was about
to externinate the biz, sluggish REPTILE
with a stick that | had seized when my
companion asked me to wait q few mo-
ments, as king might come along.
Not exactly understanding whether
he expected person CT thar Nane and
failing to see what that event Lad to do
with my laudable desire to smash the /.
big, ugly thing that had presumed to
take my leg for a pillow asked him /
FOR an explanation.
"Air it possible yer town folks dunno
what ling air: Why, a king air tie
boss sake nv the wooda lie don't do
no harm to nuthn, ccp:;n snakes, an
he don t poster them Us Laln't pzen.
But ho do love a copper an a RATHER
which is tie .yurst snakes Nv these dig
gins, an he's death Oh en-.
"T'othor day WIZ gwire long old
road, an all nv sudden ieerd singin
as though camp moetln Lad just tuck
IL, knOWed it wuz RATHER, an lookin
round | faw linn On a knoll. an q pow.
elful E!s un EcVuz, He WIZ quilted up
like q corkscrew, an his rattlcs wuz
a-mREln the air jingle But at first | ,
3ouldn t 'sc0Ter the cause, an | En0wed ,
RATHER never got ready fur business ,
ur nothi1. Presently seed the grass
'-sWayln an a-bendin, an then the rat ,
Ter, be gets nerylus all skeered, an IN.
ulllln hisse.f he made q break to run. =.
But 1t Wu2 too late, fur Gu came the
ing like hurricane. an putin hisself ,
nSt ahead the RATHER showed him his
g wuz up Seem he c0uldut 'scape. v
le rattler quilted ag'in an showed ~
sht' The King, he commenced to run
1und his lnlny IN wide circle. tho
'ttler "atcLln, lickin out bis tongue =,
maxim his rattle sing like a banter u
loser an closer tie king draved his r.
role as TO dashed round until he
uZn' moron three feet from the mi.
y.
Then tho RATHER. thinkin he say
g last show to save his Lacon, made q b
'Werfrl gpiteful lunge at the king. q
ng be- do1@cd ~, az a, w. ~ lur the d
r Wua on toANe rattlCr Thar wuzp't b
INN but tall " snakes in sight fur A
eW minutes IS they ftaGAt an tus- "a
aid see the va l',, ~ .H' af'tr niue 81
,upd 1onn1 tho -. "''oh striped KING E
,rapevine On a tr~o '''-' J"s' IKE
Then | sea NO .;.a..,,. q
back nv tho neck, an corIl l, Ia
. ~NrA, t'u could hear IA