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To: Crocodile who wrote (53923)	7/27/2000 12:41:14 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

I would guess that the odds of an English visitor being bitten by a rattlesnake are greater than the odds of a Canadian, just because there are no rattlesnakes in England, so the guy probably didn't take precautions. My children know that snakes might be lurking under logs or in deep grass or in a hollow tree, so it's best not to stick your hand in someplace where you can't see. We do have rattlesnakes in Fairfax, also copperheads, they like to lurk around stream beds. The kids have also been taught to look out for spiders. I had a "close encounter" with a water moccasin when I was a kid. I was visiting my grandmothers in Biloxi, and stayed the night with the one who lived on the Back Bay, and was running from her house to her sister's house, just next door, and almost stepped on a six foot long water moccasin, crossways to the path. Luckily, I had been taught to look out for snakes, so I adjusted my stride and stepped over it, and kept running. I also had a "close encounter" with a black widow spider once. I was at a picnic, and was sitting on a log, and looked down at my hand, which was resting on the log, and saw right next to it was a black widow spider. I had always wondered whether you could see the red hourglass if you saw one in the wild, and I definitely could, not the whole thing but enough to know what it was. My kids have seen poisonous snakes and insects in the zoo, and I hope they'd recognize them in the wild, or what passes for wild around here.