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that poisonous snakes a
there ?"
 Oh, no, I will not
lorida (abound is rath
must remind you that
things everywhere, until
drains the swamps, and
tion to. his skill. It is


dangerous animals abound


deny that


they are found


er too strong a word); but I
this is the natural order of
il man cuts down the forests,
brings the earth into subjec-
not peculiar to one State or


country, but to all that are densely wooded and sparse-
ly settled.
 The moccasin and rattlesnake are not so attractive
and amiable that one would desire them for household
pets, but they are no more deadly in Florida than else-
where; and you know they are found occasionally in
almost all localities. I knew and heard very little
about them when here. It was only after returning
home that the fearful dangers I had escaped were re-
vealed. I have seen but one moccasin, and not one-
rattlesnake, except in a cage. The colored people,
who would be the most likely to know the worst that
is to be told of them, appear to give themselves no
uneasiness about the serpents or animals that are sup-
posed to make traveling, or walking in the forest, unsafe.
 "Aunt Kitty," who for years has done the family


washing where I am, walks two


(


woods every Monday to come here,
returns alone, but says she has never
and has no fears. She would not like


s through the
and after dark
been molested,
to come upon a


rattlesnake unawares, but thinks a little caution is all
that is needed.
 The first year I was in Florida, on the St. Mark's,
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