| Show T 2 T 1 the i ne tale jaje of 01 a tail T uncle bill shows show that a horse hait will turn in into to a snake if left in wates water pathetic fate of fudge Judge mortons Mo Mor rions tons 1 old grey mare medusa proves it f Y want t know how thet that old legend gend started about horse hairs turn tn in inter snakes if y leave lem em in water over night asked uncle bill wall now thet that old legend as y call it is gospel truth jest you take a horse hair an put it in a bottle af water an but say you ever hear tell af how bedge mortons Mo Mor rions tons old grey mare died wal wal wal theres a heap of things you city tellers fellers dont know about after all why fh h bedge kept this mare lit his out in th cow barn a ramshackle old build buil din tn an th roof leaked considerable consi drable but thet make much difference antil one night along in april when he had a rainstorm now iye ive seen some pretty likely rainstorms brainstorms rain storms in my time but this here bertic perti clar lar one was cal calculated elated t malte make all th rest af cm am look like sunshine durin a dry spell next mornin when the bedge went out t th barn t look things over he found th old mare sound asleep in two feet af water he jest stood there a lookin won deric how in hod held get all th water outer th barn again when all tit a sudden he gave a start thet almost woke th mare her tall tail all seemed t be sort ii a squirming round like he looked i closer an sure as youre there every hair dinall in th pesky crIt critters tall tail had turned into a st rappin big rattlesnake naturally th bedge was sort u ut up sot when he first discovered all this put but when he got over his surprise surp riso some he took th matter philosophically an seemed pleased moren otherwise why next winter lie he said sald thet that there rattlesnake tall 11 do instead af th old mare 11 look right nobby hitched up lip t th cutter but medusa lie he always called th mare medusa jia att thet she destined t livo live iong long durin the summer slimmer when shed whisk her tall tail around t bresh th hies flies off them reptiles would snap em olf off an all eat em they finally grew so fat an heavy on this fly diet thet th poor old mare pull her onn on on n tail ta ll 11 let alone a wagon besides snakes anah es dont sleep th same hours as bosses an th awful rattling at night kept medusa awake at last the poor chittur died her tall tail broken hearted for th most part long survive her I 1 I 1 thet yle ye say asked uncle bill no as far as I 1 know bedge morton never a dr di of liquor in his life new york 1 Sun |
