The Coconino sun., 1922-01-06

two weeks before Roosevelt's election and two weeks after. Thus with a Pricei rattler in tin box, I walked in the middle of the street, for those who drink heavily, say up to their ears for a week or so, dislike snakes and quick surprise, jolt, may be- come a serious matter. During the night both Pricei and green rattler were pickled in a bottle of something Paradisians had overlooked. With this package neatly wrapped under my arm the next morning, I started for Joliet via stage, the only passen. ger. The driver, an old acquaintance, to my surprise argued stoutly for national prohibition. That pleased me.
 'The sun warmed up a glorious au- tumn morning. The towering Chiri- cahuas, as old friends, seemed back ing us ever for any endeavor, the gentle Peloncillio range greeting us in dress for company, kindly and radiantly. Does not large and pleas ing scenery make the human kind both bold and friendly? At the end of a splendid vacation, I felt fine any, how, wanted Co do something, wanted to do my part and showed him the snakes. It was a mistake. One ter rified look and six pulls at his own bottle came rapidly. In the next half hour we were at Rodeo depot, the train was one the dot and I never heard the rest.
 "Do rattler's fight? Certainly, and the big ones have some skill and are very quick of movement. Thus be watchful and carry long stick. On level ground, they hit the mark at about one-third of their length and farther if favored by a slooping hillside or rock to brace their tails against. None have hit me, wrapped their strangling coils about me, battled with me far into the night, crawled into my blankets, kept vigil upon my senseless form, chased me on foot or horseback. In every instance I had to 6o the chas- ing. However, it is reported here about Flagstaff that one, I supposed to be the black prairie, is particularly vicious and is often the attacking party. I have not seen the snakes. In fact I have not seen one dead or alive the whole season.
 q think rattlers do not travel at night, altho some, familiar with the hot deserts westward, say the horned rattler hunts at night, the days being too hot for snake comfort. However, snakes will crawl into blankets. While camped with my sister and niece in the Sabino Canyon, near Tucson, in the hot season, a harmless snake was found in our blankets frequently and those girls blamed me for it. Again Prof. Cute seemed suspicious. We were then camped in a glorious sleep ing room of about thirty acres in Monument park with the Arizona uni versity class in archaeology. The per pendicular cliffs on all sides, except the entrance from the plain, arose seven hundred feet above the floor level. A few scattering clusters of oak, spring of water, ripping laugh ter of girls in the distance, odor of coffee, bacon, creosote bush, an Ari- zona sky, waking or dreaming, pleas ure or comfort, who could ask for more?
 q arose early for I knew it to be snake and snail scenery. While ty- ing my shoes, John Wetherill, the noted guide of the Navajo country, now custodian of Monument park, came towards our fiat and the drowsy professor, carrying live rattlesnake outstretched, one hand back of its head, the other grasping its tail. He laid it down near by and it instantly started for an opening in the blankets. Singing Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound" Solomon's Somebody" and "Cock-A-Doodle-Do" late at night tends to drowsiness in the morning. However, the professor got up, way up, more than six feet and offered his kingdom for stick, a stone, but there was nothing but sand and the everlasting cliffs at hand. l can, thus, prove that snakes crawl into bed for we have the skin to prove it.
 Add New Rattlers
 Commonly, snakes, hen-like, lay eggs, white, ob-long, bird-like in size, depositing them in the soil or under logs or rubbish to hatch. Rattlers, however, when about the size of a new lead pencil, are born alive and these youngsters will bite immediate ly and are poisonous. If food is plentiful rattlers may shed their skin every shedding add a new rattle. If belligerent and the homestead brushy,