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fashioned leather couch, a woman let out a yell and there was another black racer working his way along an inch thick limb directly above the heads of the crowd. Since the snake act was on again, the audience turned from relics to reptiles and ringmaster Jenkins announced an intermission in the sale “until we see what the snake is going to do.” For ten minutes Old Satin, fully as long, if not longer than the first snake, slithered from limb to limb. Like a squirrel, he seemed to have a definite travel route and finally glided out on a thinning branch extending toward the tree where his predecessor had been. Here an open gap of some 18 inches presented no problem, as the snake with amazing grace and strength thrust ja couple of feet of its body outward to secure a new grip. With a portion of its length safely locked on the first tree and a portion in midair, he just pulled forward every bit like a miniature train crossing a viaduct, apparently intent on locating its mate. However, this old snake made the same mistake as the' other, for there again was the same man with the same stick and the same results. Naturalists may bemoan the sad end of the “farmer’s friend”, but sounder judgement preferred to keep the jwomen out of the trees rather
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