Show rattlesnakes RATTLE SNARES SUICIDE when Attao kea by travelers it to to ito own destroyer I 1 atlanta To we were riding over the onset tied prairies of kansas with a com panion when we came suddenly pud denly upon abarge prairie rattle anake the growth of gross allover the avas ran k and thick and fully a or eight inches high ex capt in little flak orde presed spots where the water bad stood until late itt the spring on ahme it was short and it was on one these partially bare places perhaps thirty feet square that we cama upon the snake war took out our revolver and were about ld at it but our companion said dont shoot we had wasted most of our loads el looting at prairie chickens etc and might need what we had left for other game there was not a stick large enough for a riding s witch within a mile but there were limestone rocks here and there on the rie and he said that if we won drw keep the snake in the bare place be would ride is tance back and get a rock where we bad deev several wp undertook the task but the sjouke was vicious and bent on getting oat into the high grass finding that lie would get out if be had to pass right under our borst we drew back a few steps and fired at him the ball struck and cut up the ground a few him but the discharge seemed to his anthe disposition and action he wriggled to a small resin weed growing in the bare spot and COHO himself tightly around it by this time our companion bad returned with a rock stud dis moti fiting we threw it at the snake it struck the ground a few inches beyond him and he ne v or moved we drew away the stone with the crooked handle of an umbrella and gain threw it at the snake thin is time reach bi ut struck the ground acar im and rolled over so a to touch bin lightly still he never moved or rattled with some fear of danger we quietly touched him with the end of the umbrella and As he still remained bless and quiet we cautiously unwound hire from his coil around he weed ile was As H ITS AS but entirely de ad a 11 over not even his tail gave any sign of vitality there was not a bruise about him and certainly we bad noi hurt him wi b either wa or rock we cou id only oo cde that in his ewhen farad ht he had bitten and thus I 1 gas offic iii to collector did on tell mr hendricks that it his I 1 ill is not paid today to day the gas will bee butoff collector sir official 1 Wl colac tor because ja call bis daughter last naghi ing til 12 30 and I 1 haiet the check F Z elianne el iange |