Show dangerous sonk snake among the american pit vipers which are not rattlesnakes are the copperheads copper heads and tho the much dreaded water moccasin of the Cali fornias and texas tho the forum hai has a wide range east of the mississippi and frequents meadows in the neighbor hood of water there it sometimes falls a victim to the last named snake for on opening an unusually thick water moccasin caught iu lu texas a large copperhead recently swallowed was found within it swallower lowet the water bocc moccasin in is an animal more dreaded than the rattlesnake since while the latter tries to escape or at least makes its ts presence known by ita its rattle the former Is Is believed to go out of its way to strike while it does so without emitting a sou sound a another dreaded k kind ind which is said to attack without warning is s the ter do lance of the west indies quarterly review |