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Show Poison of the Rattler "Thero is a good deal more fright about tho blto of a rattlesnako than thero is actual danger," said n well-known well-known physician. "I do not mean to say that tho blto of a rattler isn't a vory serious thing, but I do mean to say that this particular sort of snako is really not so ready or apt to 'get In his blto' as Bomo others. "In tho first plnco thero is tho riow gonernlly credited fact that tho rattler is tho most honest of snakes. Ho doesn't 'pick a fight; ho doesn't lay in wait for any ono. Ho won't run away, of courso, for he's a plucky rep-tlio, rep-tlio, but ho will curl up and glvo you a fair warning from thoso rnttlos of his boforo ho attempts to strike I romombor once in tho west finding a rattler Just ahead of my horse's off foro feet. I had no weapon of any sort, bo I rodo on, passing within a fow inches of tho reptile. Tho Bnako was curled and ready for my horso in caso tho animal sldo-stoppod, but as wo did nothing of that sort wo wero allowed to pass In peaco. "Again, tho truth is that tho poison of tho rattler does not easily get into tho wound Inflicted by tho fangs in tho averago human being. For tho average human bolng, nowadays, Is clothed, and tho holes in tho fangs through which tho poison comes .aro rather far up toward tho roof of tho mouth. Consequently, very often tho point of tho fangs may enter tho skin, whllo tho polBon dribbles .out harmlessly harm-lessly enough upon tho trousers or tho boot. It Is then that tho 'victim' gots scared, fills up on whisky a bad thing in bona fldo cases of rattlesnako rattle-snako bite and bollovos himself mar-volously mar-volously cured whon ho wakes up I next day." Philadelphia Press. |