Show CAROLINA RATTLERS BATTLERS s The Thc state museum now how contains the largest rattlesnake moun mounted ted In any collection collection col col- lection in the thc world It may not bo be generally generally gen gen- known but it is true that in North Carolina tho the largest rattlers are arc found The United States snake experts arc tho the authority for this statement It must be borne in mind that the skin of ot a a. snake can be greatly stretched so IO that after atter it has been removed it can be bo pulled out In any way T to make e tho the snake appear longer or of greater girth In Inthis Inthis Inthis this case tho the taxidermist Tom Addicks made a perfect plaster r cast and on this mounted the tho skin which was made to fit I precisely and to conform to every meas meas- I This snake is six feet eleven inches in length eleven Inches In girth and weighed s seven ven pounds and ten ounces It It- has twelve rattles The width of its itA body lying flat is four and one four inches The length of tall from vent to rattles but not including the latter Is only four tour and om one fourth fourth Inches The head Is three and three-fourths three inches wide The snake is of the diamond va- va It is If mounted nearly at full length It was killed at Havelock near Lake Ellis El EI lis us by J. Ballard with one blow on the the- head with a small stick sUck so that not even en tho the skin Akin was as broken He Ie took this taro care so as to secure for tor the museum in perfect perfect per per- rf r- r f ct condition a snake which was T the largest larrest he had ever seen Near ear the same flame place Mr Addicks Herbert Herbert Her Her- bert Brimley and Mr s two little sons had an exciting and peculiar experience expo expo- with another rattlesnake and a a. rather Jather largo large specimen too tco As thc they were wore walking Mr Brimley stepped over oyer the snake while his son Arthur saw it and stopped The snake was T In coil but was as gentle as the traditional A noose was put over his head 1 He lie fa did not rattle but was lifted and carried along alon Not until his bearer struck a a. bush with him did this serpent turn in the tha alarm The bite bIle of ot the rattler does not appear to affect atred other othel snakes In the state m museum mu- mu Mum seum a rattler bit a 2 so o deep that blood flowed quite freely but there was waR no further dama damage e. e This rattler bit another rattler tIer but with no result Ral result Ral- Ral Correspondence Corre Yore Forest t and Stream |