Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Notice your snake, hog, cow and eggs exhibited on Page 8 your issue Sept. 3. Here is a Texas version of this poem extant in these parts...
Despite one-sided golf, the tournament entertained with extra curricula features. George Von Elm, of the U. S. squad, hooked a ball into the rough, came up to it, began to address the ball, was about to hit it when from the underbrush wriggled a snake. It disappeared...
...pool of moonlight a family of cats fought with a host of rats: danse macabre to the rhythm of warlike squeaks and terrific meows: Then sudden silence. A glistening cobra had glided out of the gloom. Glassy-eyed, cats and rats, man and dog, stared fascinated while the snake feasted upon a rat, upon a kitten...
...When I was about eight years of age I was greatly frightened by seeing a snake crawl out from behind some furniture in my room. My cries brought the elders, and they assured me that this appearance of a serpent was a good omen-that it meant I would become strong and great. For a time, in my ignorance, I had a worshipful attitude toward snakes...
Testimony indicates that unorthodox foods can be made appetizing. Snake and chicken are much alike.* Like white meat of chicken too are frog legs. Horse meat is sweet, dog steaks flat. Rat and cat are little different from tame rabbit. Snails fried alive in butter have a quaint taste, are tough to chew. Human flesh is sweet. Toasted grasshoppers have a nutty flavor. Earthworms, washed clean and gently stewed, have a tangy tartness...