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Show . ' "a snake j?anciek." Tells About Hannlo33 Stmkos and i Says Soma Aro UaofuL Small Serpontn Could ttttl a Farm of .Vk., the Army Worm Tint lUttlcr I Houiotlmns Couiiiilt !$" Suloldu. I i "It's a shame to kill those haruilcs 1 little snaken," said Rattlesnake Pet, when u reporter told of a recent trip to the country, where he saw afarmer kill several garter snakes. Pete had just flniahed placing 13 new Miakcn .Mo the ense adjoining the den of rattlers, which hn long been the pride of hia heart. "As soon as anyone commences talk- i ing snuke," said Pete, "I'm right at home. How many snakes have I in al ' Oh, about 75. Those in that Bide are nil poiuonous, hut these are not known U be very bad." At this the snake fancier tori: '.--;.. a bunch oi reptiles u lipht brown nilr I with dark Hpotfl on itn twdy. lVtr cv plained tliat it was a spotted a' idvjr, and vas one of new lot th:it. he liuxl juhI received. "The potted adder ran bite," said , , Pete, "but there is no poison. As he said ' that he opened the snnkc'r, mouth with Ids finjrern and expcail a daucroMt. i looking1 tongue, but there were no fanjrs 1 audi aa the rattlers ajid other poison- , ouh snakes have. The new snakes received the other day ' were contributions from friend of , Petr In Miami, I. T. The box in which I th (tnftkcfl camo wax marked: "HVi , pentads of snakes, S5 cents a pound." Thar was no other writing on the box other than the address of "Pete 0 ruber," which it "Rattlesnake. Pete's" more formal name. The box contained snakew of the lli wing species: Cotton- bouOi sna-kef, copperheads, chicken m. snakes, oopper-hotto-ni and mud siiakra. A It will be seen that meet of these I snakes are very poisonous. The cotton m mouth fcnakc Jh similar to the rattb-m rattb-m nolco In every way excepting the Ik' B of rattles. It if. said that th";e siiftfces nre more poisouou9 than rattiers, but '. Pete, who luuj had considerable p:cpe-B p:cpe-B rience nursing snake bites, doca not be- K i The, chickeii nako is a black snake, K with, red spots dotted here and there on j rtU body, and is quito pretty. As Tctc j 'look one of them from the case and ox- ml aoiined him thoroughly, he remarked K ihit he guessed there wasn't much po't H Hon about it. The copper-bottom unfce.s M nre similar to the snafcer, found in Flor- ida and othorv'Gouthorn tlulps. Pete also handled them with great re.adinePB, H but, in taking the cotton-n.nuth. cop- pcrhead and mud snakes from the box, m ho used more caution. "While the roporter, was talking to Ijj Pete, a long box arrived by extrewe I which was immediately opened. It -on-Bj tainod a large, bright-colored tuialcc It which io kifown as a coach whip. It j$ was r,ovon feet long, imd cacie from Sjj Chadwick, Ifo. The man of many snakes g look Uie reptile nnd threw it in with the jj othem nnd loclced up the cage. Wj As lie locked the door he pointed to a K four-foot snake which was curlrd up I in one corner of tbocogo. ITc wasneop- B, per-bottom from Florida. lie had just 9 swallowed n field, or garter snake, niear.- M tiring about three feet in length. An- other snnke in tin same cage had just bei fed 10 small mite and one kitten .". wcok old. In order to prove that the n sunken would cut nsythiiifr. Pete opened II the den nnd placed an ordinary egg in fj front of one of the largest reptiles. IIil ft nnakeship was not long in eneirellrg K the egg, and when he swallowed it ho K wus seen to tighten the body as if to break the shell. m The attention of Eattlesunke Pete was 1 called to a. ntate.ment which was pub-f pub-f liBhed from Cleveland, which stned that the army worm, which had been doing 1 much damage in the north wn part of E t Ohio, hud an enemy in the rattlesnake. I ' Pote stated that not only did, the rat-it rat-it tlesnakcsdevour thoarray worm, but all fe snakes were fond of them, w "If the farmers only knew when they Sg were well off," said Pete, "their garden jK truck would be much.bettr if they al-I al-I lowed tho small snakes about the gur-I gur-I den wliich aro generally killed to live, 1 that, they might devour the inn-eta," n Pete has known for a. fact where snake have gone, through gardens and picked I bt gs off the vegetables. Hence hia ap- peal for the harmless little creatures." I In speaking of the naturf of snakes J in general, Pete wound up the cons ersji-I ersji-I tiou by describing tho attitude of the black nnake toward the rattlers, nnd in fnct all others, but particular the ! former. IV tu lias a large number of block ennkes and rattler.i in the surar cage. When oneof tho rattlerRHtnrt to devour a smaller snnke or any thing that the black snakes want, tho latter twists around tho body of the rattler and squeezes so hard that ho cannot swallow the object. The result is that the rattler imar!-nblv imar!-nblv okokos up whatever he ha started i; yznvr- X'mUmmmmmmWmmmmmm '""' J' L'"n J'L"J'V'L!i' V" ' to eat and moves slowly nwnv. Tlicy never attempt to ntrlke at a black snake Haulers often strike at ol-j-'et whicli thy miss nnd happen to bury th"ir fangs in ot Vr snnkes, but in alfhis experience ex-perience IV? Vis net cr had one of there awes which yroved fatal. However, !- c.lainia that suicide, is n common V ':. ainonj: rattlers, ay on'y IV other I'ny he had nlnrire rattlesnake die from a wound Eolf-inlilcted. It appears ap-pears that about a week ngo this big snake turned slowly aroend when 1'cte wna stfluding in front of the c-ige nnd struck at hlmnclf. Its fangs were buried 5ecp into his skin, and in the morning ae died. 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