Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 294, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1916 — JOINT SNAKE PARTS, THEN GETS TOGETHER [ARTICLE]

JOINT SNAKE PARTS, THEN GETS TOGETHER

Joker Says Head Whittled While Sections Came Back to Form Serpent. Larned, Kan,—Enoch Chase had a peculiar experience while taking the logs out of the old dugout on Mel Hick’s south eighty. He ran across a joint snake down between the logs and hit it with his spade. O* course every joint flew apart and started to wiggle off. Enoch, just for a joke, picked ip ont of the joints and put it in a bucket and then slipped behind the logs and waited to see what would happen. • In about ten minutes he beard 3 sort of low whistle and then a rustling. Thwffiead of the joitft snake came out of the woods and looked around. It then made a peculiar whistle and another joint backed up and fastened on to the head. The head whistled twice and joint No. 2 came out, and so on, so many -whistles for each joint, until it came time for the one Enoch had in the busket. At its call the thing thrashed ’ around in the bucket like all possessed, but couldn’t get out. Of course, without the Joint that fit the snake couldn’t get together. Enoch, said the last he saw of It the head had taken charge of onehalf and the tail the rest and had gone off in different directions to hunt up the missing joint. Enoch got almost home with his joint when an automobile tooted down the road. This either scared the jpint or it was its coupling-on signal, for Enoch says it managed to flop out of the bucket and get away in the tall grass.