He sleeps standing like a gide board, and sumtimes tips over in hiz dreams, and then hiz bill enters the ground like a pik ax. When he flies thru the the air, he iz az graceful az a windmill, broke loose from its fastenings. Cranes are not very plenty in this world, but the supply, up tew this date, just about equals the demand. The crane iz not a good bird for diet; the meat tastes like injun rubber stretched tight over a clothes hoss. I never hav et enny crane, nor don’t mean to, untill all the biled owl in the country givs out. I kant tell what the Sandy Hill crane waz made for, and it aint none ov mi bizzness--even a crane from Sandy Hill kan fill hiz destiny, and praize God loafing along the banks ov a kreek and spearing frogs for hiz dinner. I hav spent mutch time among the birds, beasts, and fishes, and expekt tew spend more, and tho i couldn’t never tell exackly what cumfort a musketo waz tew the bulk ov mankind, or what kredit he waz tew himself, i am forced tew admit that enny thing so perfektly and delikately made iz, to say the least, a dredful smart job. Cranes are very long-lived, and are az free from guile az a bread pill iz. Cranes seldom git shot. Thare iz two reazons for this; one iz, they alwus keep gitting a leetle further oph; and the other iz, thare would be no more kredit for a hunter in bringing a ded crane home for game than thare would be a yeller dog. MORE SNAIKS. THE RATTLESNAIX. The rattlesnaik iz ov a dull yaller color, from four to six feet in size, ackordin tew length, and all the way ov a bigness. They hav a pizon tooth, and a dedly natur. [Illustration: MORE SNAIKS.] On the further end ov their boddy they hav sum loose bones, which they kan play a tune upon, which makes the noize from which they take their name from. Thare iz only one remidy for the bite ov a rattlesnaik that I kno ov, and that iz whisky. I have seen a man that had bin bit bi one, drink three quarts ov whisky, and be sober enuff all the time tew jine the sons ov tempranse. I hope I never shall be bit bi a rattlesnaix, not so mutch on ackount ov the snaik az on ackount ov the whisky. I think three quarts ov whiskey in mi person at onst would keep me drunk forevermore. The grate mortal enemy ov the snaiks iz the hog. I have seen a woods hog take after a rattlesnaix, and ketch him in running 50 yards, and with 3 rips and a snatch, tare mister rattlesnaix into ribbons, and then swallo him whole without saying grace. The woods, or wild hog, iz the grate snakes eradikator. They will hunt for them like a setter dog for a woodkok, and if the snaix bight them, they hav a way ov laying down in a mud hole and soaking the pizon all out ov them. THE HOOP SNAIK. This remarkable snaix haz a funny way ov taking their tail in their mouth and making a hoop ov themselfs. They kan travel a good gait.