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Show The Wiggles &&&& By MARY GRAHAM BONNER 'npHKRR Is one thing extremely A nice about the snake family," suld Mrs. Wiggle Snake, "and that Is we don't always wear the same clothes. . "How often we see the same creatures who never seem to change their costumes dogs and cats. "Now we have new suits quite often." "We have to put up with hardships hard-ships In order to get it, though," said Mr. Wiggle Suake. "It doesn't all come so easily. "Perhaps other creatures don't care so much for something new as we do. "We show how much we care about it when we go to such a bother." "You see every spring when the snake families awaken from their winter naps they all change their skins. "While they are waiting for the new skin to be grown upon them for they have to wait for their new suits just as people who go to tailors or dressmakers have to wait for their suits they are quite blind. - "Yes, that Is what snakes put up with in order to get new suits. "After they have shed their old skins they become blind and for two weeks while the new skins are becoming perfect they can not see at all. "They feel their way about with their forked tongues which are especially sharp and excellent at just this time. "Their new skins have been growing under the old ones, but when they have dropped their old ones, the new skins have to have a chance to become just right in every detail. "You can Imagine that a snake Is almost as fussy to have a suit tit as Is a grown-up. Therefore they are willing to wait two weeks every spring. And they are willing to be blind for that time." So the snakes talked. "How do you think you will like your new suit?" asked Mrs. Wiggle Snake. "I can't see how I will like it," said Mr. Wiggle, "but 1 feel as though I would, and as though It were going to be all right." "I am sure I will like mine," said Mrs. Wiggle Snake. "Some- "I Am Sure I Will Like Mine." how I always do. I love a new skin so." "And we love ours," said the other snakes. "We must have a good meal soon," said Mrs. Wiggle. "It is just three months since we have had our breakfast." For the snakes eat every once in awhile but when they eat they -eat a great deal, and then they sleep. So they decided they would have a family dinner as soon as they bad their new skins. In the meantime they went crawling crawl-ing around, feeling with their I forked tongues, and hissing delightedly de-lightedly about their new skins which were growing so well, and of the meal they had had three months ago. And also of the one they would have so soon now. They were getting get-ting up splendid appetites ! (, 1930, Western Newspaper Union.) |