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A TYPICAL KATTLESNAKE. 



1810, slaughtered one thousand one hundred rattlesnakes in three days on 

 the eastern side of Tongue Mountain. In 1877 a farmer killed seventy-six 

 massasaugas in a cranberry marsh of Crawford County, Ohio, where are 

 still harbored many serpents disappearing elsewhere. Some swamps and 

 canebrakes in the far South swarm with the dreaded cottonmouth, and 

 local species occur in thousands on parts of the plains and Rocky Moun- 

 tains, particularly in the tufa craters of warm springs, in Utah. But per- 

 haps the nearest approach to the "den" of the sensational picture is an 



