The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-30
4 DVDUfAEHR OF HHB EOOI
FEDORA. TIE NEW ADDER. ~
4 REBELLIOUS CAPTIVE.
me TFins 70 TnrOtile Charley anyaeFs
FmgaF and Hangs FEsm a Tree Pre-
tenamg ahe % Dead tilsphants. by
ths way. seen to Ne Getting nlase.

AM1@H Ntto " HE4A- aANMN4MAAs d
ths way. seem 70 Ne Getting nlase.
There 10 this about Fedora. the new
striped adder; She IL lately come from
her own household in the country 10 tah'
Eat In the Zoo. 90 II can't be supposed
that she would have assumed In 20 short
a time all the uaagss Of the Oldest In
hAbltAnta.
She hasn't. Go to the hack door o. hsl
fat. knOok twice and then slide u back
on lie rollers. Watch Charley Snyder
and then do a. he does. Charley Snyder
a. possibly you know already. IL head
keeper o. reptiles and mammals az the
BrOn1 geological Park. but Fedora re-
CARDS him a. an lmpsrtinsnt ianltor and
treats him a. such. But her methods ara
different from those OF the other dwslisrh
In that same row Of nathOuses. - has
been limited.
The callers at the park Of a Sunday
afternoon usually spell out the signs In
this wise: This way 10 the heptyie
House. and prOnOHnos IL ~ such. Fedora
occupies the ground aOOr Of No. or !
On tho north side Of the square. and CON-
monty the callers converse With her
through the front window. Not % 10
you 60 With Charley Snyder. Charley
Snyder 10 the same who some tsms ago
crossed glow worm with q granite snake
and got q parkway. 20 Il u said.
Mr. Snyder has a way 10 the apart
ments % his tenants al his own. In COM
mon With most supsrntendsnts Of build
ings. Il IL the back way. sOmstimea he
doesn't even 20 much a. knock despite
the timidity OF Fedora and her sex. Rack
he slides the door and thF9sts In . hand.
Il may b that Fedora n asleep. That
makes no difference. Superintende1ts Of
buildings and janitors usually reserve
inoonvenisnt times for visits 10 tenants,
a. Fedora will learn when she gets used
TO city life. Later on she viii get used
10 such inCursions Then she will either
submit taHely or else run away a. do
Micky. the green lizard. aud Lucreoe.
Fedora. when abe sees the janitorial
hand coming toward her. puas out her
neck until she looks a. savage ~ q king
cobra. -Cs-sasss-ss.' says she In her
hack country dialect. She shows that ahe
IL offended 10 tho tip Of her gray spotted
tail. But the visitor shows no coneideFa-
ton whatsoever Between his thumb and
forCAnger hc selves that puffy neck and
pinohes IL. folding some inches Of Fedora
tightly into the palm Of HE hand.
Fedora can't see for the life OF her
why she should be intruded upon in the
midst Of her Sunday siesta. % she curs
up the end Of that spotted tail around
Mr.. Snyder's fingers. wriggles her spec
killed. body in and out. until she has bound
up his hand in a serpentine touFniquei.
NO no. says Mr.. snyder in the same
tones that q janitor uses when he turns
on the gas And what are you going 10
do about it2-
Plainly. there is nothing n do Fedora
opens her throat a. vide a. a bargain
day purse She looks a. Il she had some
thing 70 say about all this interference
but obviously there u nothing. She has
10 submit Then Mr. Snyder ties her up
in a Gailor's knot. gently. 30 that nothing
is hurt but her dignity. and hangs har
on the limb Of a tree
Fedora you might we'll think u dead.
Not a motion, not a word. not even
sibilant gasp. Fedora hangs on the branch
until the superintendent Of buildings
saes M 10 take her down He lays her
quietly on her Own sandei hoOF Fedora
takes herself out 81 the saiiOrs knot. 7
then with slow, sinuous turn rolls over
on her hack She = ~ limp a. cold MAJ
arOni. the sickest looking Kissing alder
-. -. - an yruafw hFa AaF hNWo are
still wide apart and into them Mr., Snyder .
thrusts a finger.
-See. says ne. she thinks that's the 1
way snAkea look when they're dead /
PLAYING p9ssum. Snakes that've just 4
come In always pretend they're dead 4
u you show EN- you aren { AFRAID OF them. /
Look At this fellow
he shoots out a finger and thumb after .
Mickey. the green ixart. Micky wriRgles ,
and shoots out his tongue A. vici0uSly .
a. you please. There's no 'pOasum 20
Mickv His green sides shiver fervently. !
aud when he Is on his four feet again
on he darts n the far corner % his house.
They learn that after they're here
q while. says Charley Snyder.
In No. 5. on the east side Of the square
lives Charley Frey. the Indian rat snake
who got his name from Mr. Gaynor's
rat catcher Charley Frey IL somewhat
taller than you are and a fighter from
one end 20 the other Yesterday after
noon they had him In a foot square box
90 that his portrait could he painted.
They took him into the work room in
the hack part OF the reptile house 70 that
he could he put hack into his own fat
Mr. Snyder pulled on the glass cover.
nippsd him behind where his carr would
h@ IL he we're built like ~. and hauled
his whole siK feet Of wriRgle out of the
bOV Then he wound ham about his wrist
a. a sailor does a hempen line II
Come on says he. we'll put him into
his own house.
It's the hack alleyway again, the jani-
tors hiRh road 70 the apaFtmeuis Oi the
tenants Mr. snyder slides hack the
door 20 that you cAn So some half dozen
other Indians ratsnakss lying in a spotted
tanRla In goes Charley Frey like a
bitlng whipcOrd and me$srs up the whole
afternoon duiescsnce. The sunday call
ers run 20 the glass to see him and he is
most impOlits. Out goea his tongue
,eAin and again. HE a naughty boys.
NJ Dossum playing for Charley Frey I
Charlea snyder In Raymond Ditmarn'a I
nead helper in the care u al the aniunala.
hi they snakes or manuals. Yet he apsnds
most Of his time with the gators and I
.ortoisss and snabra. He got a three inch
zaah in one Of his hands q while Ago from
m alnRatOr which was too ready for
iinnsr, but that didn't interfere when he
"a tho amphibians yesterday aftaFnoon I
h was q matter Of six inches l.stween
,and and teeth. but nothing like q scratch. !
Over In tho elephant houss Old 0unda
.akss his peanuts YEARLY. The time was
shen Gunda used 20 koWtow and Ffnn {
,siim uhan Won FED him. but now Ia -