BOSTON'S RATTLESNAKE AND RAT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIL, Issue 266, 9 November 1877, Page 4

BOSTON'S RATTLESNAKE AND RAT.

A ehort time since one of the membera of a prominent Boston manufacturing firm spent a few weeks hunting in Florida, and on his return brought with him a monster rattlesnake, the gift of his friend. His snakeship measured about five feet in length, and his body the size of a man's arm, the white, yellow, and brown circles blending rather beautifully in patches of various forms. The heavy traingular bead, char_cteri_tio of venomous reptiles, has a sinister expression, ahd in moments of excitement the five rattles on his tails and keep up an unpleasantly suggestive whirring, while a forked tongue of inky blackness and surprising length darts aogrily from his turtlelike mouth. He is no sleepy, halfstarved fellow, as may readily be imI agined, but wide awake and ready for lan encounter of any kind. It was into the cage occupied by this snake that three days since a rather small-seized wharf rat was introduced, in the expectations tbat the rodent would .orm a meal for the stranger. The anake seemed to think so, too, for he darted oq the unwilling visitor and caught him by the neck. The rat, who had hitherto been running around the cage trying to get out, gave a sharp squeal as he felt the serpent's fangs, and, twisting himself about, buried his teeth in the scaly jaw of the aggressor. The snake writhed and twisted and rattled sharp notes of alarm a& the rat kept his % aharp incisors a. work and before the spectators oould fairly comprehend what had happened, the little quadruped had shaken himself loose, and waa hopping in affright at the further end of the cage for a mean? of exit. To the surprise of all he showed no effects of poison, and when the snake again made a grab at him he met his creeping foe and snipped off a piece of his long forked tongue. This seemed to be rather more than the Floridian had bargained for and he dragged hi .iself into a corner, cast down and defeated. Since that time the rat has flourished in his strange quarters. He capers over the body of his whilom enemy, and avoids a puocb of a stick by creeping over the head of the snake. The rat seems perfectly indifferent as regards the reptile, when the latter, roused to a high degree of anger by outsiders, makes a strike at , him, hardly takes the trouble to dodge and only bites back when the rattier is unusually offensive. It is a singular condition of things, and the rat' a immuuity from death cannot very easily be accounted for. — Boston Post.

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