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Show SNAKE KNEW ITS BENEFACTOR. Truthful Sailor Tells About Really Remarkable Rattler. "You can't learn mo nothln' about rattlesnakes," said tho sailor. "Thero ain't no man llvln' knows moro about rattlesnakes than mo, An' so I don't hesitate to tell you, my man, that that thero rattlcsnako yarn o' yourn Is a Ho out of tho hull cloth." Tho other man protested mildly. "Now," said tho sailor, "If you want to hear a rattlesnake yarn with somo facts behind It listen to this here. "I was a-travolln' wunst In tho Bad Lands when I seen a wounded rattle annko layln' on Its back, Its tongue hangin' out, pantln for water. I Jedgo It had been flghtln' and got licked. "Well, I took pity on the critter. I guv It a drink out of my canteen, bound Its wound and made a Httlo bed of soft moss for It In tho shado of a tree. "And from that day for a year or moro this horo snnko natcherly nover entored my head. "But by crinus, tho next spring I found myself In that same neighborhood neighbor-hood again, and bust mo If a rattlesnake rat-tlesnake didn't come wrigglln' and rattlln' an' boundln toward mo with as gay a welcome as a dog gives, and It rlz up on Its tall, my man, and licked my hand. , "Of course I reckomlzcd It by tho scar of tho old wound. I couldn't got rid of It. It follorejl me homo. "And thnt night In 'the villago It done mo a good sorvlco Along In tho small hours I was woke up by tho breakln' o' glass, and rushln' downstairs down-stairs I found tho shake had lashed a burglar to tho tnbloh?, while, with Its tall (Gut of tho jipdor, it Kvas rattlln for tho polIcttCV j |