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Show Charmed by a Snake. Bnakea travel a good deal on their lie iti-Ho-n They scare birds and small. , repuaim?t-&uA' , gW r, animals 60 they become helpless. Weal. know this to be a fact. And then when they get in a tight place with a man they try to nn a bluff on him. A lawyer law-yer in our town once met a rattlesnake down in the Ozarks and began to experi ment, or rather to let tne snase ea.pti-ment, ea.pti-ment, to see if there was anything in the snake charming theory. Fa said that the snake's eyes got brighter and brighter, and his scales became glisten-tag, glisten-tag, 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 didn't 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 ho would hare lost bis wits.' Forest and Stream. |