Word: snaked
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...picture camera, comes to him through a half-mile of deep marsh. Indeed, it was something of a feat for Duguid to have seen his companion wading through the marsh a half-mile away, if the brush was at all normal. We all wonder how Duguid kept the great snake within handy grappling distance from the time it was first seen until he grasped it upon sighting his companion returning...
...bright spotlight necessary for the photographic exposure is believed to be the cause of the reptile's stubbornness. It was stated that the snake has not eaten since Thanks-giving, but that it will not eat until it decides to perform for the Film Foundation...
...From Singapore we went into the jungles in a Ford just as though we were driving up Fifth Avenue. We forgot all about snake boots and the accessories you buy in outing stores. . . . Mr. Grimson would go up into the forest to persuade the natives to come down out of the trees to pose. We had a grand sort of Englishman with us. 'Hi there,' he would call, 'do you want some nice beads for your wife? Very well then, come down and pose.' I had my armature and clay mounted on the trunk rack behind...
...Canton Naval Club gave a dinner in honor of Vice Admiral Sir William Archibald Howard Kelly, Commander-in-Chief of Britain's China Station. Most of the officials of the Canton Government and tycoons of South China attended. The piece de resistance was a large grilled sea-snake. (Tropical sea-snakes are poisonous, but admired as a Chinese delicacy after head and poison glands have been carefully removed...
...snake farm in Florida does a small business with tinned rattlesnake meat...