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Show BRUSH FIRE STARTS SNAKES Farmer Sees Whole Treeful of Squirming Reptiles While Cleaning Clean-ing the Meadow. Clinton, N. J. John Bendig set fire to a heap of brush in his meadow to clean it up, and when he was on the way back to the barn he was startled by a tremendous hissing and whistling. Looking back, he saw scores of long blacksnakes gliding from the burning brush and wriggling up into the branches of a dead oak tree. They kept coming as long as he looked, till the huge trunk of the tree itself seemed to squirm with life. Bendig hurried to Jacob Zacher's place and got Jacob's two boys, Milton and Warty, to go back with him to the meadow and take their rifles along with them. They blazed away at the snakes as fast as they could load and fire, and when they got through there were 93 dead reptiles. |