
ANY interesting incidents have 
occurred while snake hunting. 
All teach a lesson of extreme careful- 
ness, and the following illustrates a 
certain retribution for one mistake. 
This was on the occasion of my last 
snake hunt which Mr. Fletcher, to whom 
I am indebted for many helpful hints 
in hunting and handling snakes, and 
for much knowledge gained from his 
observations of snakes. On a hot af- 
ternoon in July, 1922, Fletcher, with 
a friend who had never seen snakes 
caught or handled, and myself started 
out with the usual equipment. Within 
an hour we were at a spot halfway 
up the hill where picnickers had re- 
cently been, as evidenced by lunch- 
boxes strewn about, and here we 
scrutinized the rocks and _ crevices 
twenty-five feet distant. Our neophyte 
had asked many questions all along 
the way, and now it was up to us to 
procure some excitement in showing 
him how to find and capture snakes. 
Finally I spied about three inches of 
the coil of a snake deep in a crevice 
and must have overlooked it several 
times, because the rocks were of a 
coppery color and the old oak leaves 
about simulated very well certain 
shades of the snake’s scales. There 
was plenty of time for both to see what 
I took to be a snake, for we had in no 
way disturbed him as yet. 
OT seeing his head, and due to the 
fact that the crevice went verti- 
cally downwards, the first move was 
to place a stick against the part of 
tae body visible, anchoring this part, 
it would be possible to slip the noose 
of the other stick over the angered 
snake’s head when he chose to come 
out and investigate his enemy. 
At this point Fletcher asked to get 
a better look, and giving him the an- 
choring stick to hold, he moved to 
where I was standing, and reached 
down with his unprotected hand, hop- 
ing to grasp the snake in the usual 
manner. However, the snake, with its 
head and four inches of its body ceph- 
alad free to swing about in any direc- 
tion, before I could say a word, struck 
Fletcher’s left index finger. For a 
moment he turned white and said, “‘he 
bit me.” I saw the whole affair, and 
was dumbfounded. It all happened in 
an instant. There were two drops of 
a yellowish oily looking fluid on the 
back of the skin of the left index finger 
between the last and the middle joints, 
or more properiy on the dorsum of 
the second phalanx. 
LETCHER didn’t have a knife, nor 
did I, but many thanks to our neo- 
phyte, he did—one that cut any grade 
of butter. While Fletcher held the 
stick upon the snake with his right 
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