Show SNAKES FROLIC ABOUT HOUSE i I HOUSEr r I i v P- P Pt Pr 1 n I 1 s t r N ewe By NEA Ser Service Ice Surgery BALTIMORE BALTIMORE Surgery radium adlum snakes and snakes Dr Howard Ho ard A Kelly world fa surgeon and probably tho foremost authority on radium In America Is a lover of ot snakes He has caught thousands over Oler a pe- pe period period pe period of ot 62 ear ears and has been bit bit- bitten bitten bit bitten ten by every variety of ot pol poisonous onous reptile on the continent Snakes take tale the tho place of ot dogs and cats In Dr Kellys Kelly's household A dozen roam at liberty through his story story tour residence and rats rata and mice are unknown He houses a foot toot seven Constrictor or Highland Blacksnake to dispose e ot of the larger rodents and several Flor Flor- FlorIda Florida Florida ida corn Snakes make short shrift of mice Recently the doctor was wa 4 heart heart- heartbroken heartbroken heart broken broken when he ho discovered a 0 King Snake had wandered from hl his hia ball ball- bail bailiwick iwick In the tho dining room and made breakfast of ot a 0 Hog Nosed Viper in the pantry Dr Kelly Is a 0 charter mem member er ot of ofa ota a national society for tor the protection protection protection tion ot of o reptiles Yearly he makes Ill auto excursions to Baltimore's out out- outskirts outskirts out outskirts skirts to repopulate snakes on Bal Bal- Baltimore Bal Baltimore county farms They are tn- tn In in diminishing rodents ho he said but he has yet to receive thanks thank from the farmers farmer Recently Dr Kelly returned from a 0 a camping vacation In tn Can Can- Canado Canada Canada ada ado where he ho had mad made mada a a vain search for tor a 0 specimen of ot A A few days be- be before be before fore toro hi his return ho shot a 0 large ha han k and as the bird tell tel It vomit vomit- vomited vomited vomited ed forth a II specimen of ot the tha rare ra reptile Dr Kelly Insists the venom ot of reptiles is greatly exaggerated Inet year in F nas he-nas bitten by bya ill a Copperhead and a 0 a compan companion on was the victim of ot a 0 Rattler Both re- re recovered recovered re recovered covered but the doctor admits he suffered for tor six elx weeks Asked whether Mrs frs I Kelly elly ob- ob obJected ob objected to the reptiles hop and jumping hop jumping over oer her carpets Dr Kelly she had cared for tor the col- col collection col collection lection of ot pets peta during his yaca- yaca vacation vaca vacation lection col-lection tion and alt all seemed fat tat and aid happy upon his return nn |