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timid and surprised. It darted across 
the road and flung itself in a jump 
from a culvert-bank approach, vanish¬ 
ing in a tangle of briers and vines be¬ 
side the road. This was a harmless 
snake, but around its type have grown 
up the stories of the blue racer that 
comes rolling down a hill, and at the 
proper speed, momentum and place, 
straightens out, with its arrow-head 
tail first, and poinards its victim 
through and through. Having seen the 
blue racer in flight, I could well be¬ 
lieve almost anything of its speed and 
the astonishing effect it has even on 
one in the driving seat of an automo¬ 
bile. 
Personally, having seen no rattle¬ 
snakes during thousands of miles of 
desert, western, mountain and southern 
state traveling, I am obliged to speak 
of them from hearsay. If one takes 
the ordinary precautions in making 
camp described elsewhere in this series, 
with snakes specifically in mind, among 
other things, they are relegated to the 
realms of bugaboo dangers. Yet if one 
is careless, and does camp near rocky 
heaps, in tangles of brush, at the ruins 
of old homesteads — especially any¬ 
where near an abandoned sod house— 
the prospects of meeting up with rattle¬ 
snakes is excellent if the questionable 
practices are long continued. This 
applies to southern and western states. 
In sparsely settled regions, snakes are 
a real peril. 
It should be noted, however, that in 
the great western farm and homestead 
districts the natives and residents feel 
themselves bound to kill every rattle¬ 
snake they see. This feeling has re¬ 
sulted in the extermination of these 
snakes in large areas. The reptiles in 
the Bad Lands, in the brush-grown 
washes, coulees, aroyos and in shelter 
of heaps of broken stone, near food, as 
prairie-bird nests, and gophers, prairie 
dogs and other small life, are often 
numerous and ugly. They wander off 
across the levels of prairie, amid the 
sage and curly grass. In some locali¬ 
ties it is always sensible to look under 
the bed before getting up, and one 
naturally hangs his boots on the top 
frame or drops his shoes on the car 
seat, rather than on the ground, lest 
when he shakes them out in the morn¬ 
ing he find a snake in them—not nec¬ 
essarily a poisonous snake. At that, 
when putting on a shoe or boot, one 
couldn’t be sure, on feeling some for¬ 
eign, squirming thing in his shoe or 
boot, whether it was a rattler, a grass 
snake, a toad or what. 
Snakes are found in all automobile 
touring country. There is a stretch of 
several miles in the Mohawk Valley, 
in New York, where rattlesnakes are 
found. Also, in the Catskills, and in 
Pennsylvania, and through all the 
southern states, and all the western 
states, at least in places. 
The sensible thing is to camp in open 
spaces, and to eat lunch where there 
is no snake cover. I should much like 
to see rattlesnakes, but I do not go 
looking for them, prowling around 
where they are apt to be found. I 
recommend this to all tourists, even as 
regards regions where snakes are al¬ 
ways harmless. 
The question of Gila Monsters, scor¬ 
pions and centipedes is important. 
They are found in the southwest, and 
there are times when the only live thing 
in sight on a desert is one lizardlike 
thing darting across the cream-colored 
alkali ahead of the car, with tiny puffs 
of dust where the strange claws gain 
purchase for another enormous leap— 
five yards even. They say that the 
scorpion curls its tail up over its back, 
and that with this tail it stings its vic¬ 
tim. The poison is exceedingly pain¬ 
ful. The wounded place swells up, a 
limb expands to twice its natural size. 
Many days may elaspse before one re¬ 
covers from the physical and mental 
agony, though the number of deaths 
from scorpion bites is few. Most of 
the creatures in the desert are harm¬ 
less lizards, which look like scorpions, 
except that they drag the tail. 
Gila Monsters are said to have poison 
bites. In the claws of the hundred¬ 
legged worm, centipede, is poison that 
surely is disquieting and painful. They 
dwell in the southwest. People of a 
region do not much concern themselves 
with these various poison creatures. 
They practically ignore them, since 
they don’t go around their home places. 
Houses are built on blocks, and wide 
spaces are cleared around them, to do 
away with hiding places for reptiles 
and vermin things. All the field work¬ 
ers and wilderness wanderers of the 
open spaces accept snakes, insects and 
reptile creatures as part of the possi¬ 
bilities—but they will go into an old 
cabin, drive out the snakes, scorpions 
and what not and take possession. 
Along streams, where one fishes for 
a mess of bass or catfish or redfish, the 
moccasions are a deadly and treacher¬ 
ous lurker. They strike without warn¬ 
ing. To illustrate the danger of these 
cottonmouth snakes, the story is told 
of a negro who was poisoned by a 
snake bite. Another negro inherited 
his boots, and in due course he died of 
a big leg swelling. A third negro then 
took the boots, which were nice and 
new. He, too, died. By that time 
there was a suspicion that amounted at 
least to a superstition. A close exami¬ 
nation was then made, and the poison 
fangs of a cottonmouth where found 
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