Connecticut western news., 1916-07-20
TWIN LAKES SEA SERPENT
Frightens Ladies but Judge Roraback
 Thinks it Harmless.

Frightens Ladies but Judge Roraback
 Thinks it Harmless.
 Twin Lakes, us watering place, has not yet attained to the same degree of consplcuousness in the public eye, as the great swimming holes along the Jersey coast, from Atlantic City and Long Branch to Raritan Bay. It doesn't want to and it doesn't have to-. Twin Lakes is just as high toned, fully as select, no less delightful and infinitely more beautiful and pictur- esque than anything the sandy beaches of mosquito-i infested New Jersey can offer Furthermore Twin Lakes is more conservative. It abides by the proverb of the poet, and will be, mot the first by whom. the new is tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside"
 Nevertheless, Twin Lakes is reason. ably up. to-date, and when some special feature is credited to that enchanting Switzerland of America it is able to exhibit the goods.
 Twin Lakes is not exploiting man. eating sharks, like the Jersey resorts. It disdains to have recourse to the sensational. Besides, man. eating sharks are not nice attraction. They are not only repulsive but repellanG. People are afraid of them, especially after the chronicling of three or four authenticated instances of the man. eating shark showing his disposition to live up to his reputation and swallow ing folks, either whole or on the in. stallment plan.
 The sea serpent, on the other hand, is not only an attraction but he is not known to be other than harmless. No sea. serpent was ever known to eat any body, not even a native Jerseyite, who is pronounced deliciously edible by the epicurean mosquitoes that grow fat on him. The mystery of the sea serpent s appetite is his chiefest charms. No- body knows whether he's an omnivor. ous amphibian with cannibalistic pro. clivities, or 'arf and 'arf, or neither.
 Any way, the sea-serpenL is desira. ble, attractive, classical feature for any shore resort-and Twin Lakes has one. It's a sky-blue, wrigging, squirming serpent, whose sinuous movements in the clear water, close to shore, may be observed by any who desire to see. It may not be as large as the orthodox ser pent of the big pleasure resorts, nor so wise and wicked as the heterodox snake that climbed the apple-tree and gave to our common ancestor a straight tip that cost him his place, long time ago, before Bryan ever became addicted to the habit of running for president-but it's genuine sky. blue serpent, never theless, and it swims around in the shallow water, near the Roraback boat house, evidently without fear and without hostile intent Occasionally it swims ashore an wriggles about in the sunshine on the bank.
 Its presence did not become generally known until last Saturday, when a party of lady colonists, their breath coming 'in short pants, ran excitedly up to Judge Roraback and asked, be- tween breaths, if he had ever seen a big ugly blue snake.
 "Well, no, replied the Judge, "that is, never exactly saw one, but had lots of them pointed out to me in the atmosphere of the court room, when l was 8 young lawyer and used to prosecute drunks. But you ladies haven't half described him. The blue snake has purple legs, a pink pitch fork on his tail, green horns on his head. yellow eyes as big as tea saucers; his tongue is yard long with double pronged barb on the end of it. Every time he opens his mouth he emits a sheet of flame and sulphurous smoke; he barks like lion, and crawls up and down the wall and drops down from the ceiling and stands on the tip of his tail, on your pillow"
 But, Judge," persisted the gasping spokeslady, "there is big blue snake swimming about down there, this very minute-a real snake, about so long and so big around, and as blue as the heavens above."
 "What shade of blue is it? ?" queried the Judge. Light blue, or dark blue. or emerald blue, or crimson blue, or what ?''
 "No," said the lady earnestly, "it's a tint about midway between a Yale blue and an Alice blue.'
 "Is it about the color of those boats that are being painted down there ?" pointing to the waters edge, where Brewers man was painting number of boats 8 bright blue.
 "I should say it's the precise color of those boats,' was the reply.
 II thought so, said the Judge as he strolled down toward the painter. The snake was. there, sure enough, swim ming about, close by, and evidently getting his bearings for a squirm on dry land.
 ''When are you going to give that snake another coat ?" asked the Judge.
 "Give what snake another coat of what ?'' said the painter, looking in- tently up toward the top of the hill. "I don't see no snake.''
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