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likely place for snakes— and under my nose lay a coiled moccasin, regarding me with interest. There being no stone or stick about but a rotten piece of pine, with which V.C. tried to prod him out of his hole into which he retreated, he was left at liberty.

A day or two later my father brought a dead diamond backed rattler