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HOI IS AGAINST SERPENTS,
AN SSTSAOEDINARY BATTLE ' IN
THE CAROLINA MOUNTAINS.
Hiindre;! t.r Snakes Torn to Pieces
by a J •■i to/.en Savage Swine in a
Den » : a- Hillsiae.
T have i • witne-sed a ibdit between
snakes and Ldf-wild pin's which was a
regular;: . - and reptilian pitched hat
X'c 1 '"
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and I crossed the Big Smoky mountain
in Swain County, one of the ‘least nopti
luted and wildest counties of the State,
earlv in the morning In descending the
mountain hundreds uf snakes of different
species were ('served crossing the narrow
road or trail So numerous became the
reptiles that before the descent was fully
aeconijiiislhsi I had to acknowledge a
certain amount of nervousness approach¬
ing fear, and of course the subject upper¬
most in my thoughts was that of snakes,
and rattlers in particular. The guide,
old Tom Denton, a well-known woodman
and hunter, quietly chuckled as he per¬
ceived my increasing nervousness. At
last he said:
t i Them snaikes is gettin' purty thick,
but you’an v.eedn't be afearrd They
won’t bite less they're cornered. Least
.wise, we’ll soon reach ole Timberlake
•shakedown, an’ then You’ll sec no more
"
* 11 iD‘s ,,
After gaining the foot of the mountain
iwe ascended a narrow creek l'or.several
imiles. ] had occasion to notice that after
we had partially descended the slope the
reptiles seemed gradually to disappear,
.until by the time we had gained its loot
not a single one of any species was to be
■seen. This fact struck me as rather pe
tculiar, and 1 remarked to my guide:
“The snakes all seem to have disap¬
peared. 1 haven’t seen one for half a mile
or more.”
i i An’ you won’t; we’re getting close
■on- to Timber lake's. ”
i . What has that to do with the disap¬
pearance of the snake*':
i i Wall, I forgot you’uns don’t ’no’
nothin’ of Timberlake’s razorbacks.’’
When l told him 1 had never heard of
Timberlake and didn’t know what he
, , byrazorbaeks , - he , said • n
meant „ „ .
“IhmbeA.Kers the oldest hunter m .
them there mountings. He s hunted an
trapped over fifty vearn never hez been
outer the lulls half a dozen times in his
life. Some rears ago f Timberlake settled
down Cave Fork, about -, . two , miles *i
on
abeve here. He wuz goin’ to stay there
wi*h his ole woman an’ family, it* but the
snaik-, w«.‘ - > thick that took the
to clean ’em out. so !„.•
went over to the Big Swamp among the
mgg,rs, where he bought about a do/.m
of the 1, ilf-wild, long-nosed hogs we cal
dei’tli raz< , >r ,aC> oil ' snakes, “rtJreU them liotus. i^, l Z an n no
siv'ke ut'. in creation kin git' away from
t Liu.,.. They’ve got » a nose ’bout one
widtbodiedan’'' thtt . Thev^kin , ,
win. uraiu
seoo stun, 1 , through iuiua„ i a canebrakc an .J ixit 5 out n
, . •
Timberlake t got a drove uv 'em an’ toted
■c 1 l \ i on a sled. It tuk him two
weexs 'y to do 1 , . ^ .. U ^ .M’ 1 1 1 -,.,,,.
.
he soon eleanec oa • * “ •
uni c for : few ; duvs \ bout the sliakedown,
not to git L ’em fat, z 1 , ur_ all i, tVw4 the coin in - n
Ixawih (ah me wu- n pu a ° Jac ?
1 !o Z speik.’"' (
VlirMA uimnieu so to | c. Soon’s he" foun
that the hogs wudn t inn in . xw j > -
cm omen t ic pen. t v 1
Th.-n snakes down here didnt . . no
everythmk about raz<orlmcks an they
stood iite. They'd coil up they’d an hit strike, the
them big rattlers wud, an’
hogs on the jaxv or side as they’d run up,
■but they might’s well hit a board fur all
the harm they’d do, an’ in a sekund that
snake’ii he tore to pieces an' et up. You
see a rattler coils up with his head an'
, • , •
. . .
ab',:it a foot m net «. s i\’ u .^T U F
v .
middle. He b J t ' ^i|u i] n
a wime. and socks ang.^ *n e
uv a maa or annum, nit you see i ,
bit bard hide. ilKr ■' 10 g, S- s l ieua g '•
razorracks, the tec.-i^von go .n an a
fo ced back, eau'in t« pDcn, '
bums out at all, to v,.m out <• c E
tiers mouth. il( s “ 8 vt s t?L l ,
tired after sinking nice > oi. m P
nn they all then j* ay ^ C
razoroack non t wait ni e • ^ 'V
no snake km gn toot i nrougji \,
hide tra'l he jest goes m t unn. r n
.. .
them keittry’boui l- ! '-S cozed diggers^ here an y ou e can eanef t ...i up
the ..
rattler thin two mi os. a mrau a.•>-■
offen' takes the hogs out to a big den jess
fertile km uv seem a -* 1 .- 11 ( ■
c>ra o uioci ,
By this time we wera c
lake's shake-down, m ac a mos where m
front ,{the primitive log shanty
he made his home, The old hunter—a
frizzled veteran of sixty years ot more.
with keen, black eyes, arched brows, an
tan-colored, heavily bearded face vv;
the doorway. 'V hen we
he stepped from the door an s
U:\K in
‘‘Lite, strenger; kum you uns cUI
t. ]c :,r,‘ luck. ' The invitation was a
genuine mountain request, and wc were
soon seated in the only room the cabin
i-(forded. The hunter’s and wife, three a half- tall,
raw-boned woman, girls the
grov. n ooys and two were
ctnei cc-upants. After a frugal supper
of corn-t- bread, with honey, game and
-
milk we sat down to a quiet . smoke an!l
talk. I told Timberlake of our conver
•««xio.. coming down the mountain. ;
bim w dcscr j be ho N- ] l °” s
killed the snakes without getting ijdttu
by them.
■‘If you'll stay termorrer, stronger,
we’ll tek them hogs over to a big den of
snakes about three miles from here an
you'un kin see fur yerself hctter’u I kin
tc p vc *
Of course the opportunity was toe
8°® d bt! lost. A ext morning, blight
and early we were ready. Timberlake,
Uenton. myself, and one of the old hunt
^ iSg-noid. 1
thin-hackcd hogs, which
trailod alon 8 behind, gathering up the
thi » trail of Me dropped as we went,
About seveu °' clock "’e arrived at the
foot of a tremendous elite of rocks. All
about ^ere huge bowlders and broken
pieces of stone. A snort dt-dance farthei
we came to a deep hole or pit about fifty
feet in circumference and ten feet deep,
approached from one direction by a nar
row break in the side. Here Timberlake
stopped and threw the remainder of hi
corn into the pit after dropping a few
grains in the trail. In a few minutes the
hogs, six in number, tremendous, lank
fellows, were, crunching the corn at the
bottom of the basin. The hogs hadu t
finished their meal before their grunting
and squaling began to bring hundreds of
heads of reptiles from the crevices, and
within twenty minutes not less than 100(5
beady eyes and hissing tongues wen
"axing to and lio. One immense rattle
snake slowly crawled out from under a
Striving rock and coiled himself in a coil
at c ' ) - s ‘ ‘ 0 l '.‘ m < ianH ‘ 1 ’., 1
followed by . others , until . te
™l»dty f m a
minutes .>00 hissing rattlers were tilt
spirals along the face of the cliff. The
hogs paid little or no attention to the
snakes, and it looked to me as though
they were afraid, and t so seated to r l in\
bcrlake.
••Don't fool yerself. Jess wait til.
they all get out.”
I didn't have to wait long before the
space next the cliff was filled with snakes.
They seemed to gain courage with luun
bers, and in a little while, led by the
monster rattler, began to approach the
hogs. began to take
The razor-backs now
some stock in the proceedings. They
were leet by an immense boar whose tusks
projected \ J at least four inches from his
1 Th „ old Mlov , waited until the
wpre (:los(J to him , w!l ,„ he
'
a savage grunt and c, argec s a gId
i™" tnem, followed by the other hogs
m a. compact hue ol battle
I 11 he snakes kept up m deafenin'* ?„„„+ rattle, J
™ . ^icU was mingled • i i the .mgij grunt ol
bo 8G whlk> ^ sn fl‘l»».g’ % the teeth
the swmc as they closed upon the rep
...... ; u nu " ^
aid^r-HgM
u wl . ith ; n ,, his . iuu , mass of rut
“ stamping; and
h g ^ , dang^. ripping,
no^ obUv io of .io^n At one turn
than half a rattles were
striking ... lum . direction, .. . ? bu
at trom every
a lightning sweep ot his long, powerful
laws', armed with four-inch tusks, liter
t0! ’ c « UT through their ranks The
other hogs 1=3 were not idle, fhey, liow
*
lcent closer , together » and » charged , v
ever,
^u'ough their enemies much as a harves
ter swings his scytne. In about wenty
minutes the snakes were terribly thinned
out and began to retreat, followed up by
the hogs, ^ w r hicli would catch them ns they
undertook to crawl , under 7 the . loose f rocks .
<>f - fat> A lick jerk !lu(l the
snake would be hurled over the shoulder
f the bo 8 m front to be torn in pieces
bv those m the rear. In a few minutes
* be
m ore „ ot a Jiving serpent was to seen,
-while all around the pit xvere tlje dead and
st;u writhi ^ twbtin ,. After
!agt snakc (jeen kille(l or had
disappeared the pigs grunted with satis
faction and lay down in a huddle.
“Wait, strenger,” said Timberlake, as
I was about to move away, “an’ you will
see some more fun.”
After waiting fifteen or twenty minutes
the swine seemed to have either recovered
their wind or rested enough, for they all
regained their feet and followed the old
{>()ar wb i c h began to overturn Hie loose
w £tli his long nose. Under almost
every stone one or more of the defeated
rntt j ers | iu q taken refuge. They were
quickly dispatched. In less than half an
hour every stone of ordinary size had been
upturned, and not a single ophidian suc
ceeded in making its escape. 1 noticed
that when the stones were turned up by
the snouts of the hogs the snake- which
had been concealed did not make any
f ur ther attempt to defend themselves, but
^ j mmovea bj e un til torn to pieces by
hogs. Whether they were exhausted
tbe i r former efforts or were cowed 1
^ meaQS of telling. Timberlake
said in explanation that when a snake had
for some time it became completely
bausted. and in fact, frequently ‘ sc
helpless that a man could jock it up in
ids hands with comparative safety.
Didn’t Have a Savory Smell.
The Java Bode records a singular ad
venture which recently befell a Govern¬
ment surveyor in the wilds of .Sumatra,
After a hard day’s work on a mountain
s j,j e he passed the night in the open air
i a hut haffily run up by his coolies. As
j ie n a.s falling asleep after long watching,
the sight of two fiery eyes glaring in at
the entrance of the hut almost paralyzed
him with terror. An enormous royal
tDer „ soon glided in. smelled him all over,
an( y then set to work devouring the re
mains of his evening meal to the last
1 iitj rsel. Afterward his terrible guest
:-appeared.
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