The Winslow mail., 1925-09-01
JEROME VISITORS
TO SNAKE DANCE
GET REAL THRILL
(From Verde Copper News)

(fIOIn N6IQG NOpptI 4NSNSJ
DR.. Walsh, Lou Amster and Vic
tor Butts have lot more respect
for an Arizona rain and for the
possibilities Of the combination of
that rain with dry wash than
they had couple of days ago.
They were on their way home
from the Hopi snake dance and
just before they came to the big
wash this side of Oraibi they saw
rattlesnake crossing the road in
front of them. Of course, nothing
would do the doughty travellers but
to collect his snakeship and do a
little dance of their own, StubbS
agreeing to bite the reptile a time
or two and the doctor to cure him
if the snake returned the compli-
ment, or, if the remedies failed, to
publish in all the medical journals
of the country his scientific obser-
vationS on the exact manner of his
demise.
"Stubbs," seize, eff that bird
bites you and save your life, it'll
be great feather in my cap, and
if you die, I'll write a regular
treatise about it. l win either way,
so hop to it.
They fooled around with Mr..
Rather for about half an hour, but
as they kept well in his rear, there
was no chance for the experiment
to come off.
In the meantime seven or eight
other cars went past and negotiat-
ed the wash in safety. When the
snake observers climbed into
Stubbs' car and got down to the
wash, they noticed little trickle of
water in the middle, but it wasn't
enough to wet rim and they
didn't know that one had better
trust a mule than an Arizona gulch.
When they hit the damp" spot
the car just naturally started to
sink to China and it would prob
ably have done it if a great big
wave of flood hadn't come along
DR.. Walsh told the Verde Copper
News it was "at least eleven feet
high" but his eyes probably were
bulged out so far that he miscalcu-
lated; Lou Amster says it was
higher n that" but Lou was
frightened to death too. Butts says
it was four feet on the face, and
he's probably not far off the mark, |
being used to measuring thinks to
a thousandth of an inch.
Anyhow, the car started down
stream while the passengers waded !
out They say that the last thing
the doctor brought ashore was a
handful of souvenirs and toys that |
he had bought from the Indians for
Harriet Ann.
After a while the flood went
down, as floods do, and the car
was half a mile or so downstream
with nothing but the tip of the |
radiator cap sticking out of the
circumadjacent sands.
Whiles the tourist gaZed in SOL
emn melancholy on the wreck, or
rather on the radiator cap, big
buck Indian came strolling along. |
"How?" said he.
How yourself" said Butts.
Pretty much him smash up"
said Lo.
''Oh, no." sez Butts and proceed
ed to tell the chief that that was
one of the finest cars in the state, |
and worth, even as it lay, whole |
oodles and bundles of coin.
The chief listened for a while |
and then declared: "Me hear that
talk before. Give you fifty pesos"
"American?" asked Butts
NO." said the chief, Mex"
Finally they got to a composition
and Mr. Indian unbelted himself
and counted out seventy-five good
American dollars.
How are4we going to get out of
here?" asked the doctor.
81 give a DAM" said the brave,
and they might have been there
yet if a truck hadn't come along
and hauled 'em home
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