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Snakes
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“The way a snake catches birds and frogs and things is not by chasing and grabbing them, but by charming them. It just gets its eyes on their eyes, and runs its tongue out and in, and then the bird can’t move if it wanted to. The snake keeps that up a while, and then he can take his own time about doin’ the swallerin’. You have to be kind o’ careful yourself about not bein’ charmed, specially by black snakes. I know there was some of the children out berrying one time, and Sarah Hill came near bein’ charmed. They thought she was comin’ along all right, when they noticed she warn’t with ’em. They ran back then, and Sarah was standin’
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