Show black snake a man s ally Rattle e john of lower mil ford was in town with a souvenir ol 01 eight rattles taken from a snake that had been killed by a which had caught it at a great vantage john saw the big rattler lying at full length on one of the colerain moun bains aith a toad in its mouth A big blacksnake saw the same spectacle at the same time and made a dash tor the rattler the lutter could not spit out the toad in time to mal e a fight and had to tamely submit to being crushed to death in the coils of the blacksnake then john cut off the rattles pa dispatch |