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the marsh or brake, will sometimes warn 
an understanding man of his peril. Yet, 
for a semi-tropical climate, we have com- 
paratively few venomous snakes. An 
impression prevails in other parts of the 
country that the South is a peculiarly 
snaky district. Yet wc have only four 
venomous reptiles; Kansas has three; 
Pennsylvania and New York have two. 
Besides, since they hibernate for five 
months in the year, they never give hunt- 
ers much concern. In Florida, 1 be- 
lieve, one of the joys of the mid-winter 
season is stepping on an eight-foot dia- 
mondback rattler. I never saw but three 
diamondbacks in this country; and dur- 
ing the season when they are abroad 
they usually stay in those remote places 
where men do not go. Sportsmen visit 
those places in the winter, but then the 
snakes arc asleep. A great many, by 
the way, hibernate in hollow logs, and 
numbers of these are destroyed when a 
fire passes through the pinclands. 
TIM TAYL.OR was up to see me the 
^ other day. He says that he has had 
trouble keeping poachers out of his big 
sheep pasture. He says that the squat- 
ters in tb.e pinewoods are forever hunt- 
ing on his land with cur dogs — full- 
blooded curs, at that — and even at this 
season. They are after any kind of meat 
tlien can get — chiefly rabbits. But Jim 
thinks that they would not refuse spring 
lamb. He claims that these pinclanders 
eat so many bunnies that they acquire 
rabbit ways, and that every time one 
hears a dog bark he will back his ears. 
Jim told me a good story on his wife. 
It seems that the new preacher was to 
dine with them, and they wanted to im- 
press him. When at table, Mrs. Taylor 
planned to ring the bell, as if to call the 
cook or the waitress or some such. Then, 
when no one appeared, Mrs. Taylor 
would show her impatience and go out 
and bring in the dinner herself. Well, 
as they sat down, she tinkled the bell. 
There was no response, but the sound 
made for social success. But, to the 
amazement of all, the door was pushed 
open, and on the threshold stood that old, 
lean, miserable hound of Jim’s. The 
sound of the bell must have awakened 
sad memories in him, for he threw back 
his head and began to howl. Worse than 
that, he had the preacher’s whole dinner 
inside him. Jim says that this social 
business is hard to carry through if a 
man keeps a hound. 
This is a time of the year when the 
woods are prettiest. And the air is al- 
ways full of fragrance. As I write this 
I can catch the rich aroma of muscadine 
blossoms. The trees are in heavy foli- 
age, and the crops are growing fast and 
lustrously. 
One day last week, everything here 
going well, I had Old Cudjo paddle me 
into the Reserve. Explain to your 
friends that this place is just a lagoon in 
the pinelands — full of all kinds of wild 
life, especially large-month bass. I took 
along my long bamboo pole and several 
big hooks tufted with flies. I know you 
and some other fly-fishermen would laugh 
at my way of getting these bass ; hut I 
catch them, and that’s the main thing. 
Old Cudjo pushed me about among the 
In Writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. It will 
lily-pads, and I played the fly from the 
end of my pole, really making no attempt 
to cast. I was in the Reserve an hour, I 
got twenty strikes, and landed eleven '' 
fish. I lost several flies. The largest 
bass was an eight-pounder; the smallest 
a three-pounder. You can see, there- 
fore, that they have been in tnese parts 
some time. This big pond, which is a 
good mile long by about three hundred 
yards wide, was stocked by my grand- 
father not long after the Revolution. It 
is full of these bass, and the perch are 
plentiful, too. How they escape the alii- , 
gators I do not know. 
V/ OU w'ill be glad to know that my 
■I guess about the turkeys was right. I 
myself have seen two separate flocks, 
and Will reports another, quite near the 
riceficld. These that I saw were about 
the size of quail, and only able to fly to 
the lowest limbs of bushes. To get them 
up off the ground at night is one of the 
first lessons an old hen teaches her brood. 
They will be fine birds by the time you 
come down. 
Before I write you next I shall have 
done a thing in which you will be inter- 
ested. Just as soon as the next dry spell 
sets in, I am going to burn out several 
of the best bay thickets that we have in 
our woods. By next autumn they will 
have grown up in low, tender green. I 
And of all the places that an antlered 
buck prefers, his first choice is just such ‘ 
a place. He wants good cover, he wants 
tender browsing, and yet he wants a 
kind of a place out of which he can get 
on high gear if necessary. Three or 
four months after a bay-branch is burnt 
out it will be the home of one or two old 
bucks, if there are any in the country. 
As I am closing this letter I can hear 
all of those plantation sounds that make 
a spring twilight here a happy one ; the 
mocking-birds and brown thrashers are 
singing; up in the negro cabins there is 
singing and someone is strumming a 
banjo; over all there is a sense of peace 
and content such as only the promises of 
summer can give. 
It is touching how some of these 
negroes bring me things to send you 
through the mail. I name the latest 
gifts: a live terrapin, a peck of rice, the * 
nest of a red-shouldered hawk, and a big 
rooster with frizzled feathers. It shows 
that they think of you, and that is a sign 
of affection, which is about the best 
thing we have in this world. The reason 
I prefer sportsmen to all other men is 
because their hearts are right. 
(To be continued) 
identify you. 
