A coral snake’s poison goes into your brain and makes you crazy and unable to care for yourself. A copperhead will go after you when it doesn’t have to. A rattlesnake will coil and warn you first, but when he lets go, it’s with force and dedication. Cottonmouths ain’t like other snakes. They try to swim away or duck under the water when they see you; in the swamp they work their way up on low-hanging tree limbs and sleep on them. But if a cottonmouth is coiled and it shows you all that white inside its mouth and you don’t see it and you reach down to pick up your fishing line or crab trap, it
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