Show poison of the rattler there is a good deal more fright about the bite of a rattlesnake than there Is actual danger said a well known physician I 1 do not mean to say that the bite of a rattler isn t a very serious thing but I 1 do mean to say that this thi particular sort of snake Is really not so ready or apt to get in his bite as some others in the first place there is the now generally credited fact that the rattler Is the most honest of snakes he doesn doean t pick a fight he doesn doean t lay in wait for any one he wont won t run aw away ay of course tor for he s a plucky rep tile but he will curl up and ghe aou ou a fair warning from those rattles of his before he attempts to strike I 1 remember once in the west finding a rattler just ahead of my horse horses s off fore teet I 1 had no weapon of any sort so I 1 rode on passing within a few inches of the reptile the snake was curled and ready for my horse in case the animal sidestepped side stepped but as we did nothing of that sort we were allowed to pass in peace again the truth is that the poison of the rattler does not easily get into the wound inflicted by the fangs in the average human being for the average human being nowadays la Is clothed and the holes in the fangs through which the poison comes are rather far up toward the roof of the mouth consequently very often the point of the fangs may enter the skin while the poison dribbles out harm lessly enough upon the trousers or the boot it Is then that the victim gets scared seared fills up on whisky a bad thing in bona fide cases of rattle snake bite and believes himself himsel finar mar ly cured when he wakes up next day philadelphia press |