Show facto is IN NATURAL HISTORY tile iho rattle finds finda a superior luperio i foe in tile ta deer and blacina blacksnake e whenever a buck discovers a rattlesnake tle snake in position wili winch c 11 invited attack lie he loses no ito time tit ne in in preparing for battle he niah makes up within ten or twelve feet of tile snake then leaps forward hild and aims aima to sever the body of tho flie r jt ff r common commonly y successful but if otherwise the buck repeats the trial until he cuts the snake in twain i the blacksnake is also more than an equal competitor for the rattle 1 snake ke such is its celerity both in its running 1 and in its twining itself around the body of its intended victim that the rattlesnake has no way of escaping i from froin its ita fatal embrace 11 when hen the black and rattlesnakes aro about to meet for battle tile the former darts forward at the height of his speed and strikes at tho neck of the latter with unerring certainty leaving a foot or two of the upper part of the body at liberty in an instant he be cles him with five or six folds hoi then stops and looks his stran cried and gasping foe in the face to ascertain the effect upon his cor body if lie shows signs of life the coils are multiplied and tile the screws tightened the operator till the while watching T ng the countenance of his vittina vict iii alus the two remain thirty or forty minutes the executioner then slackens one coil noticing at the same time whether any signs of life abear if so aop tho coil is resu resumed ined and retained until the incarcerated wretch is completely dead the moccasin inako is is destroyed in the same way |