| Show SNAKE STORIES POINT MORAL if nothing else they show folly of exaggerating horrors horror one of the significant features of this snake season aal an 1 of any snake season that occurs which la is every year la Is the very long length of the blacksnakes black blacke snakes that are seen this la Is riot not at ac 4 all remarkable kable for about the only ng a blacksnake has to show for cor itself la Is Us its length it has no must cal at tall like the rattlesnake nor the puffed out head of the hissing viper nor the livid languid manners of 0 the house snake it has haa only length and when with amazing speed it whips through the deep grass or dead leavis it stems to be 30 or 40 feet long so bo truly does this little illusion ex ea at that when a person tells of a blacksnake seven or eight feet long he prides himself on great modesty of statement and by the way we have noted many blacksnake stories this summer and we have not encountered a snake under seven feet there was that story of a girl out oat in york state who heard her little dog barking violently out in the stable she went there to discover the cause and lot lo 10 that little dog was in fight with ith a blacksnake bluck snake seven feet long it was a great fight anil and the dog was do ing heroic work keeping the python at bay until the little girl hunted up a pitch fork and with that dispatched the serpent which the account says was seven feet long of course it had to bo be seven feet for there are no oth or kind Is there a moral to this there la Is of course to every snake story it I 1 la s this be exceedingly careful not to make bigger than it Is the horrible in cadent aident la in your life which you ter see that your blacksnake blick snake Is un der seven feet long ohio state jour nal |
