Show THE OLD prospector SAYS dear editor some feller that calls hissett a expert on snakes says a man can walk 30 per cent faster than amer ica ca s fastest snake the western whip snake can run he may know right smart about western snakes but he don t know much about east era em snakes when I 1 was a boy on the farm I 1 used to see snakes nearly every day in the summer and that so called expert could rit t put on 5 foot stilts and walk as f fast ast as a black runner or a coach whip snake can run admit I 1 am t never tried waking away from a snake as that am ain t no occasion for walking but when ever I 1 run from one I 1 know I 1 didn dian t leave him behind near as fast as I 1 could have a man walking some snakes amt am t poisonous and maybe some snakes cant can t run as fast as a man can walk but to b on the safe side when you happen up on a snake do what comes nat aurally tear out in high gear for somewhere else yours truly THE OLD prospector |