The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-09-10
THE FLYING RATTLESNAKE.
A Curious Dcnilcn Of the Catskill
Mountains.

"Therc were four OF them and they sat
at the same table in the hotel dining
room Tho man from Ohio had been tell
ing on obvious DE about hunting in the
Catsknls. and the red-nosod Kentucky
politician had shrugged his shoulders in
contempt when the Pennsylvania sugar.
Cd dis coffee and began.
"Y0u people don't know what expert
encos are Now. when ] first came mp
here I'm "A / boarded in a little white
house just inside the Glove, and I didn't
do "a thing but hunt am the time. One
m0rnin j got mp at five o'clock ana went
prowI'n' around the woods after anythin'
that chose 20 show MP I only hunted an
hour and what dye s'p0se / did?'
CHORUS OF Don't know GIVE II up
81 sh0r q nyin' rattiosnake."
The Ecnfuck8n grew red mp TO the ears
and made move Ga get up
Here wo don't want anything OF That
kind IL you can't Ills companions
pulled him down. eco on with your
yarn they said, and the Pennsylvania
started of again.
eyes. sir n Gyin rattlcsnake; and
tell you he was a bird. IL happened ike
this Just above Fawn's Leap perhaps a
hundred yards. there's a ledge stickn' out
from the elm like a half n pancake.
Kinder curious. I thought Ia get up on
IL and see what was there. So slung my
gun over my back and started 10 climb.
j. took me close onto an hour 20 get 10
tho bottom side Of tho rock for every
time 7 climbed n foot Ia slide back six.
but after awhile 7 got where I could
reach mp and get n grip on The ledge; so
7 pulled myself un lost my hat but at
last stuck my head nap flush with the top
OF The rock. And there 70 was
what VASE said old Kentucky.
"Why, the Twin snake what dye
s'pcae? Yes. cir there ne was. twelve
fee, long. red like fire and lookn' right
into my face his fangs shinin' Ike knives
his tongue roin' ike iightnin' aud hts
blue wings duttorln Ike n nursin' spar
row. What 20 do 7 didn't know. IL
hung there he'd drive mo one in the face
r pulled up onto tho rock he'd get me
sure. and f. JOY myself down he'd catch
mo on top of the head. Butmy arms were
retiln' Ure1 ana had TO 90 something.
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Jim hA'ch'~ VOL
Few readers or Tho zephyr can re-
member the wcl that Jim Hatch dug IN
tho ho'a near IRA Shoub's. I'm the summer
of lN2 Indeed. II Jim himself could he
raised from the grave he would miser-
ably fll to clear up the mystery Of that
"ifaFehne weN.'
As ! remember. jim worked about two
weeks before De gfrusck water. end his
wen measured 20 feet deep and four feet
across The TOP lie lined &c with stone
and finished up the whole business about
the end OF Jane The well was then s,tu-
afcd close hy the unc fence. about fifty
feet from o. dead hickory tree.
Things went along pretty nicely FOR
about a wcek; tNCn the queer perform
ances began. Jim went to the wer-or.
rather. 90 where 10 ought 10 have been
one morning and found that 30 had gone.
and in 20 place was a match of fresh
grass. haz'd with wonder. Jim staggered
beck toward The house going around be-
hind the pig-pen. And there was the well
square In tho center Of the pen with two
drowned shoats q The bottom OF o.. This |
was me heeinning OF the series OF troubles
which Killed Hatch In two years Tie
never knew from one hour 20 another
where 20 find tho Wei. One day fl would |
be I'm the pasture lot and the next morn
inr Hatch would find 70 in The woods a |
mile away II was discovered IN the |
flower bed in front Of tho house one JUL