Show Charmed by a Snake Snakes travel a good deal on their reputation They scare birds and small animals so they become helpless Wo all know this to be a fact And then when they get in a tight place with a man they try to run a 1 bluff on him A lawyer law-yer in our town onto 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 He said that the snakes eyes got brighter and Brighter and his scales became glistening glisten-ing and his body seemed to swell up a little thicker and the whole outfit became be-came so engrossing that he finally ran away from the snake in a dead scare and didnt get over it for a good while after He told me that it was his belief that if he had kept company with that snake much longer he would have lost his witsForest and Stream |