The sun., 1899-04-23

| foot OF the tree and making on with one robin
its c1 mouth and fh9 otFss ss hs,a nroarass tsnf y
Tie snsEs fS With Vi the '' Two birds Borne thus
spT Al n6d we we Killed the bG rePtS SrS
from moS or The eo onn Gf from the coll I at The
| other end Of it's body. Both robins were dead;
Now. what want to know Isl how did that It
get down out. Of the tree with them both
have asked that question hundred times, l
guess. and have been pausing more than thirty
"Siy recoilections Of those snakes Of the old
ing ones: with one exception. Some men
working for us. were moving log one day. and
watchng i g them % at The work. 70 As the log rolled
over a snake ran from % under II toward inc
SmE KIM and and bit cf him In in the side. S II Vas Killed BY
the men, md then 1t was discovered that 1t wasa
n bs aa eFte anS 6s
suffered terribly. The side became spotted
almost like the snake Every remedy that was ws
was sayet .or the time. but the boy never got
well. Thr swelling and pain and spotted az.
suffering CT the victim was more intense with
every recu renee. and during one Of them, the
Snakes we're so common in our neighbor.
hood thSt a. az Eri Sared nc more for them
in Ohio for chipmunk. One day. in taking
Se1 Sd pFdfe
s!ound from from w6lsh they took scores and scores
every sr"Es one f'l /, little i've ' snake in It.
thought it ~ uid he great fun to take some
what the title snakes would do, 1 wrapped the
eggs up IN cottnn and put them under the
was alive with oung snakes from three inches
toslx inches lon. :; and they we're soon wiggling
sha g. oxtr struaE a see
took car? Of the rest Tho three that saved
iDrhRa L
went to pick the first one up, it twisted ulp.
1reRed m and SsrtGd hGTy little
their savagery was source Of the great.
fortnight they werc eight or or ten inches long
others @ f' they shovel fisht ori sight. When they
hem "n the box and ay Wth them
they Were s Sos neShbS 6shnPened med to tsm9
~ 0 you know what them sarpints are that
" , WY they're sopperh @ ads" the man ex-
No wonder that the littln chaps had been so
fierce and sp's1,n,: from S the ] very egg Mother
nous reptiles, TO be taken out and killed
at once. ! had hecome so ,,ttached TO my pet
se5 tred a Kay asr fa
quite common out there in tn pse days was called
the buckwheat snake. or hCR-nose snake 1t
got its name from its nose OF. snout which was
three cornered like grain cf huckwheat, and
which also resemblod ogs snout The
regularity OF this snake vas that 1t could
f1atten its head out almost the width of your
hand. and at the same ime blow out a
strong puff OF breath. Tn s was a, hdcous-
l9oking snake: hut pc, fectly harmless.
fatal to ANYTHING it fell W on. One day my
brother and came upon hog nose snake
frog or something which it was trying ITO di-
gest. My brother .prodded The snake with a
Then he set fire to n little lunch OF dry grass
that lny directly in front Of he snake. to see II
that would not start the reptile UP when the
blaze got close to the nose. But the hog nose
was equal to the occasion. II never moved. but
scorch. the snakes snout If i wasn't taken
away from there the snake fiattened out ts
absolutely, blew the blaze out like you would a
sore over that smart tri elk Of the hog nose
snake. and left 1t to its eaie and its digestion"