Show A SNAKE STORY This Expert Always Skins the Rat tlesnakes He Catches New York Sun Reuben Etters game warden for the Spruce Run Rod and Game club of Bellefonte Pa was I j telling of experiences he has had with I j rattlesnakes Last season he said I slausht ered something more than 200 big fel lcs and I skinned every one of them alive I always skin a rattler alive because in killing them first you can I hardly avoid spoiling the hides and rattlesnake skins are becoming quite I valuable of late The process I adopt Is this I place a forked stick over the I reptiles head and hold it to the ground Then placing the stick under the pit of my arm I catch the snake by the tail with one hand and with my I pocket knife in the other hand I rio it open on the belly from the tail to the I head Then loosening the skin from the body at the tail I place my foot on I the stub and yank the hide off in much the same way as YOU would skin an eel I tackled a big one last summer and before T could get control of its tail the reptile succeeded in coiling itself it-self around my arm a third time and came near getting its head out from under the forked stick but I fInally stretched it and secured the skin with I blemish out a |