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despatched it. You will see it hanging on a 

 branch of the pear tree as we pass the house. 

 It is not less than four or five feet long." 



"For the land's sake! I 'm afraid to go! 

 Don't go botanizing this afternoon. We'll 

 drive gently along this lovely road without 

 stopping anywhere." 



"I had not finished about the blacksnakes at 

 the farm. Last autumn the man says that a 

 big snake chased the horse from the water when 

 it came to get a drink. And the horse ran off 

 good and fast, too." 



"I like to hear snake stories when I am not 

 likely to meet any snakes. I think the wild 

 places in the country are fearful, but as we are 

 not in any of them, tell me about snakes you 

 have seen. Go ahead and yam away." 



"What I will tell you are not yams, but 

 simple truth. Once, when I was little, I was 

 running along a dusty road in the country in 

 the twilight of a hot August evening. The shad- 

 ows of night falling around, I fell right over 

 a large snake which had come out into the road, 

 probably to catch toads or something. It wrig- 

 gled away into the long grass by the roadside. 

 A little further on, another snake fled from his 

 lounging-place in the dust of the road and dis- 

 appeared in the grass. I was pretty frightened, 

 but probably no more so than the snakes." 



