Eureka Reporter | 1903-12-18 | Page 6 | A Rattlesnake in His Pillow

A Rattle rattlesnake in his pillow most persons will agree that a live rattle e would not make a very de pillow and george peck of san bernadino cal who recently actual ly had such an experience while on a hunting trip does not attempt to dis puta the commonly accepted opinion night overtook peck in a lonely can yon several miles from his town and he sought refuge in a rude shelter that he found there the night being warm he removed his coat and placed it un der his head in the morning he found that a six foot rattlesnake had crawled into one of the sleeves of the coat and had coll coil ed up in the center of the improvised pillow peck killed the reptile and now has its nineteen rattles as a memento of his unusual experience