Show rattler has no chance with little mongoose what Is perhaps the file best known know u enerney of poisonous strakes snakes ts is that furry weasel like creature the mongoose it Is really an ichneumon and there are several varieties orre one found in the south of spain another in ui egypt and a third in india it Is easily tamed and will live tn in ate as well as la in hot climates it kills and eats cobras cabras karnuts and all kinda of snakes snake and has lately been imported into the united states in the tha southwest rattlesnakes often take refuge tn in old gold and silver ellder mines anil and are a great danger to miners it Is now usual when an old mine Is to be reopened first to let down a mongoose or two into the shaft and leave them there for a couple of days before the men go fio down 11 tv j that time any rattlesnakes which happened to 0 o be in the depths have been hill ea wi mill eaten |