Word: serpentes
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...serpent's head is crushed while young...
...London musical show. We delegates picked up the song and decided that as we were in the Okanagan we might as well "look for the Ogopogo." The name became popular and has spread all over the world. There are various theories as to the nature of the lake-serpent but the one which appeals to me is that it is composed of a mother otter, followed by her pups, swimming near the mouth of a creek. The pups would look like the curves of a lake-serpent...
Ogopogos. In the case of British Columbia's ogopogos, there appeared to be neither an ingenious Stone nor a Copycat Mortison. For many years, clear-sighted Indians living on the shores of Williams and Okanagan Lakes have reported the appearance of a large lake-serpent. Not so quick-eyed, white men did not discover it until four years ago. Those who know describe the animal as being a gentle monster 30 ft. long, with harmless vegetarian habits. It has the peaceful face of a sheep, the head of a bulldog. It propels its long brownish-green body through...
TIME readers make me think of this story: A nice old lady visits the reptile cage at the Zoo; after studying a wriggling serpent at length, she asks the attendant: "Oh, mister, is that a male or female snake?" "Lady," replies the keeper, "that is a question that could only interest another snake...
...each air tank was posted a brown native swimmer, manning valves which would admit water, let the pipe sink to the bottom of the bay. When all was ready a whistle blast was sounded and the offshore end started to submerge. Watchers saw the long serpent slowly disappearing, when suddenly something went wrong. The great pipe started slipping sidewise, gathering speed. Tremendous pressure of strong subsea currents had snapped one of the shore cables like cotton thread. Soon the other cable parted and the whole long pipe plunged downward out of sight, a total loss...