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Chapter II
 
³Snake Catch´
 
Indian Creek is not really much of a creek but it didprovide lots of fun and it was only two hundred yards awayfrom home. The other advantage, it was free. We spent a lotof our time up and down the banks of that creek. Killingtime and having some fun. There was of course someprobability of the inevitable danger, snakes for one. Snakesare not for me now, as Jim Stafford sang in his song: I Don¶tlike Spiders & Snakes. In the early 60's snakes were justanother free toy for us to play with. We at one point in thattime collected several snakes that were kept in a "snake pit'that was dug in our backyard and lined on the sides andbottom with some plaster of Paris. We had many uses forthat plaster of Paris but that's another story. The pit heldthree or four snakes for a while until we got tired of them orthe managed to make an escape in the middle of the night.One of the games we played was catch. Yes, snake catch.Snake come in two parts- #1a Snake, #2 some fools to catchthe said snake. After we had accomplished #1, we movedonto part 2. Snake catch is a game that we played onnumerous occasions. Never had we experienced any whatyou would now call a serious injury. Kids today don't knowhow to have real fun, back to the catch. We formed a widecircle depending on how many willing participants we had atthe time. The person who was holding said snake would athis turn, swing the snake around his head several times toget the snake dizzy, if snakes do get dizzy, anyway he wouldthen throw the snake to one of the others in the circle. Nowthe object of the game was to try and catch the snake while it
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papa_azza7777673

thats a better game than playing with a computer mouse when you're young! Love real stories.

reply01 / 26 / 2011
David L. Newman

I had to have a do-over on the Snake story because the one posted was the draft copy. I lost the corrected version and I now have something close to what was finally published. Thanks for your comments and the stars. I think the corrected version deserves a five for the effort to correct it in three different web sites.

reply12 / 18 / 2010
Rose

Hey, look what I found on facebook. Fun story!

reply12 / 18 / 2010
mohansuramya7228

I enjoyed the irreverent style you've used...just right for a childhood reminiscence.

reply12 / 18 / 2010
Rose

This reminds me of a line from a TV show that was on when I was a kid. A teenaged girl was decribing a situation that happened when she was 4 years old and her mother asked why she had done some particular thing. Looking back on the incident, she said, "when you're 4, you don't think about 'why?'; you just think, 'why not?'" I thought of that from time to time when I was considering things I did in my own childhood. It seemed to fit frequently.

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