Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1910 — Stonped Rattlers’ Battle. [ARTICLE]

Stonped Rattlers’ Battle.

H. EX Jones was walking througb Carlisle Cove, about six miles southeast of the city, when his attention was attracted by the peculiar rattle which it is said one never mistakes for anything but the music of the rattler, event though one may sometimes mistake the song of the dryfly and other sounds for the rattle of a snake. He looked—it may be said that he lost no timq in looking—and there, very close to the path, were two large rattlesnakes, with heads and raised, evidently angry with each other and only waiting until they finished their defiant war songs to engage in deadly conflict Mr. Jones did not wait for this conflict to take place. He unmercifully slew them. One was a black rattler with 17 rattles, showing him to be IT years old. The other was yellow and had 13 rattles. Then Mr. Jones skinned them and took off the rattles.— Asheville Citizen.