Show SNAKES WERE I 1 E HA HARD RD TO KILL reptiles reptile from brazil were frozen stiff on shipboard but revived when put in warm water A naturalist once told how bow in a thicket on a mountainside he be saw a man kill a rattlesnake he beat the life out of it with a club and continued tho the pounding until it was mangled beyond recognition when the naturalist remonstrated the man raid aid doss boss you cant kill a rattles rattlesnake nah to too 0 ded dead on one occasion a boat bound for or the united states irom from rio hlo do de janeiro touched at bernaz i where the mate drove a bargain with a snake dealer tor for a halt half dozen reptiles of various sizes the mate had bad them in a cage on deck and charged a sailor with the duty ot of washing it out with sea water every evening even lne all went well as long as the weather was mild but on the night before the gult gulf stream was crossed the sailor lett left a quantity of water in the cage and about 30 hours from port a biting gale struck the ship chip all hands were busy with wit h the storm and the snakes were forgotten when the mate thought of them and went to look after their condition ho he found them frozen stiff and apparently as dead as the proverbial doornail the dealer tor for whom the mate had brought them came on board the following day lie he professed great disappointment over the loss of his intended purchase but offered to take the snakes away as a kindness to the mate he gathered them in his arms like so much firewood and carried them home but p rival dealer afterward told the officer that P plenty lenty of warm water had resuscitated the snakes and that they had been sold to various museums not a bit the worse tor for their death by freezing harpers weekly |