Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1885 — A “RATTLER.” [ARTICLE]

A “RATTLER.”

A Snake Ten Feet Long and Carrying Around Twenty-five or Thirty Rattles. [Jonesboro (Ga.) special.J The people on the line of Fayette and Clayton Counties are in terrible excitement to-day over the appearance of a monster rattlesnake in that section. A little off the McDonough road there lives a man named McJunkin. Last night he was called upon by a friend, who sat up late with him, while Mrs. McJunkin retired. The two men drank quite freely. When the husband retired his companion was mystified by peculiar noises inside. Striking a light, he went in and found coiled up between the couple a huge rattler. The appearance of the light broke its charm, and, gliding across the body of the sleeping woman, it crawled under the bed and through an opening in the floor and out. The reptile was not less than ten feet in length, rusly and scaly, and having between twenty-five and thirty rattles. The settlement turned out this morning with shotguns in pursuit of the reptile, and at last succeeded in running it into a hu e hollow log. where its body was perforated with a hundred bullets. Wonderful stories are being told of other reptiles by the excited people.