Show the gentlemanly rattler the rattler is a short thick bodied snake about two and a half or three feet long grayish in color it is a sluggish snake slow to bite and would rather flee than fight it prefers the vicinity of swamps his gentlemanly quality exhibits itself in giving warning of his presence by means of a buzzing sound or rattle which he produces with the buttons on his tail rattlers cannot leap at you they cannot strike over two thirds their length small eggs A pin head could hold two dozen sea bea shrimp eggs |