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Show ARIZONA SNAKE LOR? The Territory a Natural Breeding Ground for Snakes Serpant's Power to Fascinate Authorities of thc Smithsonian Institution Insti-tution sny that more vnrletles of poisonous pois-onous snakes are found In Arizona than ln any other part of tho United Stntes Tho best authority on Arizona snakes Is believed to bo Orahnm Peck, who has been studvlne them for years "No other region In the United States Is so much of a natural breeding-Ground breeding-Ground Tor the rattlesnake an Is southern south-ern Arizona " ho said, the other day. 'Tho rocks of the mountains nnd foothills foot-hills nre of a hcav) yellow nnd gra color and the soil Is so like the hues of a rattler thnt a snake can move slow Is along nnd hnrdl) be perceived b) a person llfty feet nwuy The hot, dry air and the warm sands earth and thc Immense quantity of small birds nnd gtound squirrels In the mountain can yons nnd brush nil combine tn mnkc life for rittlesnakcs In this legion ono of tare ease nnd comfort ' Thue nre tttetnlls lens of thousands of rattlers in the sagebrush nnd clinpar- "astereyV''H, "d It Is c?n,myonKrt0oVrt?''l of rnttcsnakes IH. 3ttbe will, fourteen an" ntt'enS''-, ntt'enS''-, 'Hog-nose sn-ik.. ,,'" llti In thc mountainous V .'""i After nil the tilk ,'"" Ing. this Is the ontv .' ": ophidian rnrnUyVkW beard utter a sound h ' Many writ r, on ., say that thun,i,r .?&", ' Texas, New Mixl o,SH e renllj uncommon fe lhe) are a p,alne ',",' Tir encountcied b) nralrt. . "- clall) befoie and af,At.l?'i Hashes of ii.hVnf',lll-hunder. ii.hVnf',lll-hunder. which i'reuto. nnd quadrupeds seern ?!?. for these members of ih?'"' ID. Whenever " t0'h,?ih up these nake,om? t "? holes, from b.hlnl rock,".1? stumps nnd enjn) the ?,,. .I1 'Theconchw,p,,.u"H tremendous length .M,hl speed It Is cream or cUrV' much like the hard biSt? which Is glides 1. v,rVl scales nre nrranged InmrtT .riie'r'nU'" forms its body Into reUi iS Pablo of crushing .hR JJ, "When I vvns In Lem.-r.,. 1850 I was told by a MVlt ho had a ten-searoldbo, death b) a coach whip "J,??' fore. The man saw .,'' occasion his wnfe vvai . n!k' conch whip which threw itTS' her quicker that .he eou "J ' She was too frelghtinrt" m thnn scream and fin J Z when her daughter came ii1 and quickly released her br ." wrapping the snake 1 un 1,, thlsmay seem. Itlsaverr.!; relenso a victim In the 1 2 snake s grasp, for while It?. constricting povveri ire it, child may unwrap the col h nlng at the tall" "' "Do you believe that iiuhn power to chnrm animator "Yes, there la a certain ton clnate in a snake's ey(I men's. I saw only the othtrfc-Icul othtrfc-Icul Illustration of the dowhk, to fascinate. Over In the pine vioojii ground squirrel faiclnatrth gopher snake. The forked torr cd out of the snakes mouth!: regularl) nnd rapidly ai the t a sewing-machine rliei md ft squirrel seemed to watch It 11 Tho snnko crept slonly neirn "When the gopher itukttu two or three Inches from Her gavo a leap and Hire three M tho squirrel Imtantly the r gone The fascination ct chr had been over the little uln doubt broken the very mominn pent's rolls were about theni: tho animal gave three coamci, lied chins and realized tout moment had come "I believe Implicitly that il hav e a certain degree of poiru nntc their victims to dfiii. makes, gopher snakei and no tho power to a large derrtt snakcB have the moat fuduGrr among all the polsonoui ier-.j Southwest "The Indications of charmlcj poisonous snakes are dettlnci times Poisonous iiuih to Iirey once only. Thepolroii till nt nnce. 'The victim flutters to V-. may be, or runs a short dm. stops The snake tvitchn H poison does Its deadly sort, 1 bird falls "Any one who camel up M seen tho nttnek, might be ru cetved into Imagining that It 1 gin nee nf tho snake and nottii thnt cnused the victim to 111 cott (Ariz) Cor, New YorltSn |