The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-21
FINE BATCH or
SNAKE STORIES

Up at Asaph, in Tioga County, Mrs.
Henry Brown, who lives at the edge
of pine timber belt, went into a bed
room ON the first floor the other day,
and was Mortified to find big rattle
snake wriggling Itself out from be-
hind a bicycle that leaned against the
wall. Her baby had crawled into this
room few moments before, and was
engaged at play not three feet from
the serpent. Mrs. Brown attempted to
strike the snake with a broom, but it
sought refuge back of the bicycle wheel
and occasionally thrust its ugly head
Brown was called, by which time the
snake had sought a hiding place under
the bed. It was killed by a load of
shot from gun. How long the snake
had been in the room, or how it had
got there, nobody knew.
Probably the most thrilling expert
ence of the season was that had by D.
w. Mack and son, of South William
sport, while picking berries on the
Bald Eagle Mountain. The boy, in
scampering across a rock ledge, in
search of a new patch of berries, ran
into family gathering of rattlers, all
enjoying midday siesta in the sun
shine. The elder Mr.. Mack has long
been used to life in the woods, and
h.
succeeding in killing IL of the number.
How many escaped under the rocks he
could not tell.
one particularly aggressive RATHER,
and one possessing a pronounced pro-
tuberance midway along its shiny form
was killed by a thrust of Mr.. Mack's
hunting knife. The cash thus made in
its body disclosed the legs of some ami
mai which the snake had swallowed.
Mr.. Mack then further released the
prisoner, and was somewhat surprised
to find that the animal was a fair
sized weasel, and that it was still alive,
though much the worse for its enforced
residence inside the voracious reptile.
Mathematics are fond of chicken diet
Abram Karl, of White Deer Valley,
lost seven of a brood of choice Ply
mouth Rock chicks. He was confident
that neither cats nor other fourlegged
thieves could reach the brood. so kept
vigil over the crate. One day last
week he reached the place just in time
TO find a big rattlesnake stretched out
on top of the SCREEN in which the
chickens We're kept. The snake had a
foot or more of itself pushed down
through one of the segments of the
screen, and already another chick HAD
fallen prey to his appetite Mr.. Karl
dispatched the snake, which measured
over four feet. 1t had evidently taken
up a residence IN an old stone fence
near the chicken yard, and every day
or so it glided out to the Plymouth
Rock coop. selected plump specimen
of chick and crawled away with it,
Black SNAKES have a proclivity for
eggs. They viii empty a hens nest
with zest, Clarence. the nine-year-old
son of Farmer Amos Summerson. of
Leidy Township, went Unto the barn
one afternoon last week to gather
eggs. He found an old hen that had
been sitting on a nestful of eggs, on
the barn floor, in much excited frame
CT mind The boy was about to restore
her to her sitting when the shiny head
and foot or more of the body of 6.
large black snake was whisked almost
into his face the snake having coiIed
itself in the trough-like apartment
where the hens nest was located. The
boy called his father, and when the
i. snake was dispatched it was found to