Highways and byways of the Pacific coast . akes will goout of their way to attack a man. Theres seldom anyone dies from a snake bite,remarked Bill. Whiskey is the best remedy, and am-monia is good, rubbed on and taken internally. I tellyou the most infamous little snake is the side-winder. He is a vicious beggar, said Cameron, and itslucky he is a desert snake and small. Ive never seenone over eighteen inches long. Theres millions of emdown below Yuma. Their tracks are as thick in thesand there as if the ground had been gone over with arake. When you get near one it moves off sidewaysa-watchin
Highways and byways of the Pacific coast . akes will goout of their way to attack a man. Theres seldom anyone dies from a snake bite,remarked Bill. Whiskey is the best remedy, and am-monia is good, rubbed on and taken internally. I tellyou the most infamous little snake is the side-winder. He is a vicious beggar, said Cameron, and itslucky he is a desert snake and small. Ive never seenone over eighteen inches long. Theres millions of emdown below Yuma. Their tracks are as thick in thesand there as if the ground had been gone over with arake. When you get near one it moves off sidewaysa-watchin you all the time. Rattlesnakes are great hands to live in prairie-dogholes, said Bill, and theres often owls in the sameholes, too. Them prairie dogs are a curse to lots ofcountry. Their mounds and holes are a nuisance inthe first place, and the dogs eat every green thingaround. Where theres a whole town of them theymake a regular waste. Still storming, said Tom, looking out of the suppose the water train wont be comin up Indian blanket weaving The Grand Canyon of Arizona 23 No, responded Ralph, and I wish we had thatspring up here at the top. The thin surface soil and underlying porous lime-stone do not hold water any more than would a sieve,and the nearest spring on the upland is forty-five milesdistant. Even when found, the desert water is often ofdoubtful character. It may be tainted with alkali orother substances. As a result it is perhaps poisonous,or possibly it is simply bitter, or puckers the mouth. Poison waters are usually as clear and nice to lookat as any you ever see, explained Bill. One timeme n another feller was goin cross country, and wegot awful thirsty. So when we come to a sparklinpretty stream—say, we just lit into it; but the watermade us dreadful sick; and I been willin to leavealkali waters and such on as that alone since then. Have you seen that new girl whos workin in thesales department at the Hopi house ? asked name is Mr
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