The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-07-12

over II was trailing vine, boneysuckle,
and such; ! put away q big dinner and.
out TO that sumf1isrskouse and read or
Soss for whe bsu picked up s9ok kassr sss
eepS 70 dopsy syasr novels. %ss one We'll ns%
on for spell and then 1 gradually be-
gan 10 get snoozish. Suddenly something
ten .n, ssrthoSp squash ,aa, right down from
a .rattlerl I'm pretty bald. you see, but
what little hair did have stood right
Up up straight; now don't you forget :, =;
meant 60 fght. but. by George, he was
f9r getting away as quick as he come
him e started e5asaa on hfs ne ash and tsf
yards and killed him. lie was about three
feet long.
NICE PLACE FOR SNAKES.
''F'lorida Is nothing much but snakes.
There are thousands OF these water moe
casins. You go out fishing and you can
see 'em on the bank coiled on the over
water. They lay I'm near the shore with
their body all In the water and only their
head out. resting on twig or log. It's
TOO snaky country for me. Why, they
were going To paper a room In the house,
and IL seems they had some extra wall
paper they'd laid away In closet one
OF the young women stepped I'm there
and picked zip roll'of paper. She sud-
denly let out screech that stirred the
whole house, and when 1 run I'm there
was young rattler nicely coiled I'm the
center of the room and ready for trouble.
i killed him quick with n broom handle,
and when we got the girl calmcd do
40 she could talk. we found she'd taken
the snake from the closet in that roll
OF paper.
1T takes a blacksnake to trim rat
tier. a blacksnake'll whip rattler cy-
cry time, and rattler knows H. He'll
get out of the way and run from a
blacksnake IL he possibly can: IL he gets
attacked he coils himself and sounds his
rattle as savagely as he can and Keeps
his tongue going, but II YOU know any
thing OF snakes and should ever happen
70 get a chance TO watch battle you'll
have an impression that the rattler acts
as III he knew II was likely TO be all day
with him. The blacksnske keeps going
round and round him, Just as a pugilist
waiting for an opening. The rattler gets
more and more worried. All Of a sudden.
quick's lightning, the blscksnake springs
at the rattler. He aims In get him right
under the head. at the small OF the neck
IL the blacksnake can get his tail round
q root or something that will hold. 40
tier I'm very short time. He just saiieezes
the life out OF him.
RATTLERs ON THE PLAINS.
There's a little rattler they have out
on the plains that Is just as poison as .he
big fcliers / don't krow OF any special
name for 'em. They don't belong 10 the
Saino NaIIey az ,he common knu Iney re
only from eight TO twelve inches long.
They have the fiat head and are lively
and spry as can be. You take Il where
theys a camp OF COW punchers or some
thing. and In the morning you can go
out around the wagons or OUTFIT and
you'll hear 'em going zip. zip. all through
the grass every which way. They're as
deadly as the others, so they are. I'll
never forget once ] was out prospecting
and saw one of those little chaps scoot-
ing along the trail and ! caught him
caught him very easy-and carried him
by the tail all the way into town. Jolly
but | didn't drop him when they told
me he was RATHER and poison as he
could bev'