Deseret Evening News | 1903-07-18 | Page 6 | The Sneering Snake

TUB TIlE IB g H U SNAKE The Flue naturalist John Burroughs Is II opposed to 10 nature books that treat of ot if too to Imaginatively that Impute to animals animal sentIments of at love 10 pity pi tenderness s suit and refinement which man ai has hn no way Ill of at proving that they the Sometimes S In reading one of or these thu nature stories stories that satiny many persons hell v to bt be true I am nm reminded Mr sold said one d V of the toy stoy 10 of the Ihl Intelligent copperhead This story stor Is I quite a atrue as al true as nil mun that thai are ar Implicitly emi ered emitted lied According to It K there was a R man mall who vho had hind the Ihl habIt of ot teasing topper copper head HP lIt II would find n a copperheads copperhead Kale and then therl lie hI would wait beside It 1 till th the r It had hilI Rotten so 10 o far Into the th hole holl that only tho tiit end ent of or Its toll lull protruded This he would seize selz and Ancl with a 1 quick move movement meat ment he would throw the snake t 0 or thirty feet away ava One tiny day da the this man dPI did this to n a cop of unusual Intelligence The on alighting did not make for ltd its hole holf again Immediately as liS the oth othern ern ehi had always done lint Jut It lay III still and anti regarded r Its lis tormentor thinking r u n long while It thought Then very nry slowly It approached the hole turned tuned round and entered backwards rule entered tall tail slightly at atthe atthe atthe the man whom It had hod thus thull duped