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Show A SCENE WITH A RATTLE SNAKE. A Deadly Serpent Clutscn Two Lad ion Down The Mountain. Last Saturday a party of pleasure seekers, two ladies and one gentleman, gentle-man, had an exciting time in the mountains southeast of Brigham City with a large raltlo snake. They were toiling single file up a sunny side of a rocky ravine. All at once that terrible rattle, which once heard is never to be forgotten, wc.x heard in a dry bush ahead, and before they could sense or appreciate ap-preciate their danger, a long, ugly rattlesnake came darting down toward to-ward them. The gentleman gave a cry of alarm as the deadly rattler j shot between his feet. The ladies, frightened nearly to death, turned and lied down the hill with the snake close at their heels. As . soon as their escort could collect his wits, he overtook the fleeing ' party and cut off the snake's tail with a pistol shot. It then took to a bush, where, winding itself into its defensive coil, it was blown to atoms with a sure load from a trusty shot gun. |