Word: copperhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Daniel Bale came back to Gettysburg from the West to bury his grandfather. No Copperhead but an inconsistent pacifist, Bale had done his share of Indian fighting but refused to have anything to do with the Civil War. He settled down in his grandfather's house, prepared to have a quiet time for a while, in spite of his neighbor's nudges. Two events shattered his peace. First, a friend's wife fell in love with him, practically asking him to seduce her. And on July 1, 1863, Lee's advance guard met Buford...
...last year Douglas D. H. March, a tall, curly-haired, young snake collector from Haddon Heights, N. J., had been bitten 14 times by nine varieties of poisonous snake-fer-de-lance. moccasin, copperhead, palm viper. Godman's viper and four subspecies of rattlesnake. Doctors told him that one more bite would probably be the last. Mused he: "I like to say that I am through handling snakes forever, but I know I'm not." Last week Snakeman March emerged unbitten from the jungles of Panama's Darien district proudly bearing to his new serpentarium...
...southern Costa Rica to northern Brazil. Studded like a pineapple, its waxy, glistening scales are pale reddish yellow crossed with diamond-shaped black patches on the back. It may be the progenitor of the whole pit viper family, of which it is the longest. The group includes rattlesnake, moccasin, copperhead, fer-de-lance. On the end of the bushmaster's tail is a slender horn, possibly a vestigial set of rattles. Like the rest of the family, it has a deep pit on either side of its big, blunt snout. It is the only member which lays eggs, usually...
Under the University Museum the same department keeps a smaller collection consisting of 30 garter snakes, a boa constrictor, a copperhead, a dozen turtles, 10 tree frogs, a pair of chamma which is a type of oriental fish, a newt, a crayfish and a few frogs...
Alarmed by a report of the Southern New York Fish & Game Association that copperhead snakes were invading Westchester County, the Westchester board of supervisors pondered offering a bounty for dead copperheads. But first the supervisors wrote for advice to Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars, curator of reptiles in the New York zoo and famed snake fancier and expert. Last week they got it. The Fish & Game Association was wrong, said Snakeman Ditmars. There was no copperhead menace in Westchester County yet. But a bounty might be a menace. Dead copperheads would be brought into the county, many a harmless milk snake...