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Show Charmed by a Snake. Snakes travel a good deal on their reputation. They scars birds and small animals so they become helpless. We all know this to be a fact. And then when they get in a tight place with a man they try to ran a bluff on him. A lawyer law-yer in our town once met a rattlesnake down in the Ozarks and began to experiment, experi-ment, or rather to let the snake experiment, experi-ment, to see if there was anything in the snake charming theory. Ft said that the snake's eyes got brighter and . brighter, and his scales became glisten-. glisten-. lng, and his body seemed to swell up a ; little thicker, and the whole outfit be- i.came so engrossing that he finally ran -away from the snake in a dead scare ; and didn't get over it for a good while .after. He told me that it was his belief Shut if he had kept company with that ffnako much longer he would have lost bis wits. Forest and Stream. |