Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gruesome a joke was nearly played on the poet himself?at his birth ie was tossed aside as dead, till the midwife exclaimed to the surgeon: "Dead! Stop a minute: he's alive enough, sure!" Live enough to play the infant Hercules, with the difference that the large snake found one day in his cradle was curled up on the child's chest, comfortably asleep like himself...
...have been a careful and enthusiastic reader of your contentious magazine for the past year, and I have been watching with eagle eye for something to find fault about. At last I have you. Last week you printed a snake story...
...have done grave injustice to my friends, the Rattlers, and incidentally, you impugn the courage of us professional snake experts. I quote...
...Fakirs who dally with venomous snakes take good care to defang them. "Wrong, very wrong. The crude, untutored Hindu may resort to this expedient, but it is not done in professional circles among American snake experts. You will note that I use the more dignified term-"experts." We resent the name "fakirs." We study the nature of our snakes and it is not necessary to "defang" them, not at all. You will note that I place myself among the "experts." Thirty years experience among the rattlers. A good line that? And I never had to "defang" one, except on special...
...Also of the copperhead snake and bears...