Show STORIES POINT MORAL f nothing elie they show folly of exaggerating horror one 0 the features of ibis snake season and of any snake peason that occurs which la every rear Is the very long length of the lack snakes that are seen this Is lot at all remarkable for about the aly ng a blacksnake has to show or itself Is its length it has no sal tall like the rattlesnake nor the buffed out head of the hissing viper the livid languid manners of the snake it has only length and when with amazing speed it whips through the deep grass or dead leaves t seems to be 30 or 40 feet long so truly does this little illusion ex 1st that when a person tells ol 01 a blacksnake snake seven or eight feet long pe prides himself on great modesty of statement and by the way we have doted many blacksnake stories this and we have not encountered snake under seven feet there was that story of a girl out in york state who heard her little dog parking violently out in the stable ahe went there to discover the cause nd io that little dog was in fight with a blacksnake seven feet long it yas a great fight and the dog was do ng heroic work keeping the python tt 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 be seven feet tor there are no oth er kind Is there a moral to this there Is course to every snake story it Is ahls be exceedingly careful not to nake bigger than it is the horrible in in your life which you ter see that your blacksnake Is un her seven feet long ohio state jour aa |