The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-21

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= SAMMY SOCCER. tho undertaken.
An eight loot chestnut sapling forked
A. tho end, a dcmiiohn ~ sagwah and an-
other OF siNty-rine compose the arms for
offence and defence Of tho Schaghticoke
Snake Club.
Sagwah IL n dark amber colored prersra-
tion, irritating TO n sensitive throat NJ frat.
but rather pleasant In its effects. sixty
nine looks in the bottle like the sixty-eighth
variety, because Of the many solid things
in II. Some say II IL call d sixty-nine a.
cause tho recipe was revealed from heaven
TO an Indian squaw in 1909. Others-and
these prefer sagwah as a healer-call at
tention 10 the fact that siXty-nine H. just
three times twenty-three.
The recipe, according TO the revelation,
consists Of lines, stick ~licorice, Jest a drop
o. rattlesnake pizen as an antitoxin and
Connecticut nutmegs, and the whole Is
seasoned with permanganate Of potash to
taste. There is also whiskey in it. but only
we quantity to float the stick ~licorice and
Nitmegs at the top Of the bottle.
To-day's hunt Vas the third annual affair
Of the kind the club has held. The mem
bers, accompanied by two camera men,
six wal correspondents and Undertaken
Sammy Soccer, were met at the South
Kent station this morning by Cogg, who
drove the outfit across country three miles
to the reservation. The sagwah and sixty
nine followed the carriages under their
own power.
All the hunters wore overshoes, because
that part Of Litohfleld county that leads
to the dens Ia mostly on end, and the dead
leaves that litter the trail are made doubly
slippery by the r~attlers, who smear snake
oil over the leaves when they hear the
hunters approach.
Undertaken Sammy Soccer, although he
organized the club, has not been able TO
climb to the den at any of the hunts, be-
cause he suffers from a subacute attack
OF a misery in his legs every year about this
time which even snake oil does not seen
to cure. To-day he tried valiantly to make
the ascent, but fell weeping with pain and
disappointment when almost q hundred
yards from the snake. den. From a fallen
tree trunk, however, he lent all the moral
support he could to the snake chasers.
The climb to the den begins back of Chief
Jim Pam hut, which nestles among black
hemlocks just where Schaghticoke Hill
leaps 400 feet from the banks Of the Housa-
tonic River. Jim Pan, besides being the
other only surviving full blooded Indian
on the reservation, Is the father OF the real
Princess Alice, whose dark eyes hit the two
camera men so hard that they took pictures
OF her for every afternoon edition up to
IA. NJ, and so had only two plates left for
the snake pictures.
As the hunters clawed and scratched
their way up through the birches that stick
out parallel with the surface of the river
below they could see on the rocks overhead
SINAI mounds that looked like notified
warts on the face Of nature. Suddenly
a big bull snake ratified a warning whirr
with his tail that sounded like a ninety
eight cent alarm clock, and the warts
squirmed into life.
Now watch 'em oil the path whispered
Cogg excitedly to the war correspondents;
and even while he spoke seven big snakes
depression on the rocky Extraordinarily
kept filed instinctively by the intelligent
serpents. With a system and order that
would put the ants to shame the snakes
now spTunR OUT Ill ali OIL uFlpplHB lHe anu
each grasped in its jaws the rattle button of
the snake just ahead.
John Burroughs has said that In the oil
spreading stunt each snake grips its fellow
at the base of the rattle, but when the Gamers
mems photographs we're developed here
tonight they showed that the grip was
at the button, or tip, of the rattle, which
vindicates Ernest Seton-Thompson's con-
tention.
AS the writhing rope slipped of the
rocks and rolled over and over toward the
approaching hunters, scattering all the
while a spray of oil over the leaves. one
felt a touch Of pity for the brave, if ugly,
reptiles who were rolling gladly toward
almost certain death in a forlorn attempt
to save their wives and sweethearts, With
a last savage whirr the still unbroken rope
tried to trip the climbing men, but the ex-
perienced hunters jumped nimbly at the
psychological moment and the rope rolled
under them. Correspondents and camera
men had executed u neat flank movement
ages before this, and most of them spent
the rest Of the day at the bottom of the hill
teaching the pretty Princess Alice the two
step,
Now the hunters began to have real fun,
while the amateurs devoted all their thought
to d~evising means of sliding up the oily
ground.