Speaker 1: Suspense, which is usually heard at this hour on Thursday nights,
Speaker 1: is taking its customary summer holiday. Suspense returns to the
Speaker 1: air two weeks from tonight on Thursday September.
Speaker 2: First, you are standing at the doorway of a cabin
Speaker 2: on Cashier Creek.
Speaker 3: Upon the ridge.
Speaker 2: The bloodhounds have caught your scent, and between you and
Speaker 2: the fortune, between you and escape yon, the white jaws
Speaker 2: of the deadly Cottonmouth.
Speaker 1: We offer you escape, designed to free you from the
Speaker 1: four walls of to day for a half hour of
Speaker 1: high adventure. Tonight we escaped to the worn out acres
Speaker 1: of a poor farm somewhere in the Southern Mountains with
Speaker 1: Irvin S. COB's Great Tale of Vengeance Snake Doctor.
Speaker 3: Far back in the Southern Mountains, it's quiet and hot
Speaker 3: and lonely. One Pine Scott Hill is very much like
Speaker 3: the next, and one Winding Creek differs little from Anana.
Speaker 3: The area through which Cashier Creek twisted was the same
Speaker 3: as all the rest, except for the snakes, deadly venomous
Speaker 3: cotton mouths moccasins. They have probably more snakes along Cashier
Speaker 3: Creek and anywhere else. Most people lived in constant, deadly
Speaker 3: fear of these snakes, but there was one man who
Speaker 3: even seemed to like them, a man they called snake Doctor.
Speaker 3: His cabin was the creek bottom where the cotton moles
Speaker 3: were the Communist and he earned his megal living by
Speaker 3: rendering down their soft fetch, bottling the oil and selling it.
Speaker 3: Snake Doctor seemed harmless enough, but there was one man
Speaker 3: who believed he was a colleague of the devil, who
Speaker 3: hated him because he wasn't afraid of the snakes. This
Speaker 3: man was Jaf Mourner, the snake Doctor's nearest neighbor. Jaf
Speaker 3: was that dangerous kind of man who suspected, feared, and
Speaker 3: hated anything he didn't understand, and he understood neither cotton
Speaker 3: moles nor the snake Doctor. Jaf was ornery, ignorant, and shiftless.
Speaker 3: He'd rather shoot squirrels in chop cotton. He'd rather fish
Speaker 3: and whole corn. And that's what he's doing now, fishing
Speaker 3: down at the big hole with his son and heir. Finney,
Speaker 3: who's old enough but not quite bright enough to handle
Speaker 3: the gun, missed him.
Speaker 4: Dogging any plain fool, I told you not to touch
Speaker 4: my gun.
Speaker 5: Trump on him popper. He gets in the creeph, the
Speaker 5: cotton mat talk found.
Speaker 6: In front of you, him the varmitt he gonna put
Speaker 6: on him with stop.
Speaker 7: You don't eat to son. He's dead. Now, come here, Paul.
Speaker 5: How'd he hit anything with that rifle? I had a
Speaker 5: beat drawer right on him, and I don't fool that
Speaker 5: for Paul.
Speaker 7: S turn up at Filthy Snake Whilst I'm a fishing.
Speaker 5: Becky was sunning himself not more than two feet from you.
Speaker 5: He was just two feet.
Speaker 4: Never mind, I kind of talk. There won't be no
Speaker 4: fish around httle funderation after all that racket. Well, come on,
Speaker 4: let's go.
Speaker 7: Home and get us some viddles.
Speaker 3: Jath Morning tossed his bait can into the creek and
Speaker 3: threw a stick after him. He stood there, watching the
Speaker 3: stick drift slowly toward the big hole, where the creek
Speaker 3: widened by behind a jam of driftboarding. Jaf watched as
Speaker 3: the eddie caught the stick and sucked it beneath the dam.
Speaker 3: Jaf was curious. He moved downstream eroded to and waited,
Speaker 3: watching the water boil up from under the driftboard. But
Speaker 3: the stick didn't come up. That was strange. It must
Speaker 3: have caught under there and a tangle of water soaked
Speaker 3: and sunken logs. Probably he'd stayed there for months. Perhaps
Speaker 3: stay there always.
Speaker 5: Let's get these.
Speaker 3: Paw Jay thought about this, and an idea began to
Speaker 3: form in his slow mind as he and Finnish started
Speaker 3: for home.
Speaker 5: How much are your reckons in this?
Speaker 6: And Paul, Daddy, what you john about this old cotton man?
Speaker 5: How much are you wreckon?
Speaker 7: Gow it down?
Speaker 5: Go it down? Why far?
Speaker 7: I'm go it down, like I say all.
Speaker 6: I was aiming on rendering the old cotton mouth's pat
Speaker 6: like the snake doctor does.
Speaker 5: I was in the ceiling make myself some money.
Speaker 7: I don't like a squirm of things around me, but
Speaker 7: it's dead. Neither word dropped?
Speaker 5: You scared on cotton mouths, Paul, I ain't.
Speaker 7: No better than get myself bit by him.
Speaker 5: Dip Bailey.
Speaker 6: Know the fella got hisself bit one who We're in
Speaker 6: a draft of liquor for mines. So he goes to
Speaker 6: work and he cuts open a life chicken and he
Speaker 6: put on his leg where the butte was.
Speaker 5: Bella lived too.
Speaker 6: Reckon Mister rives ever gets herself bit, I mean handling
Speaker 6: cotton mouths like he does.
Speaker 3: Who mister Ryves.
Speaker 6: Who, mister Rives, that's Old snake Doctor's real name, Mas says,
Speaker 6: out and call him snake doctor.
Speaker 4: Never mind what your moss says. Nobody in my family's
Speaker 4: calling those snake loving scum. Mister Rives.
Speaker 6: Heck, that's what I say, all right, But I made
Speaker 6: myself some money renting that cotton mouth fat.
Speaker 5: Down in the oil. How much your reckon old snake
Speaker 5: Doctor makes out and all.
Speaker 6: He sells, I don't ut, Tip Bailey says, Old snake
Speaker 6: Doctor's got more than a thousand dollars hit weat somewhere
Speaker 6: is in his.
Speaker 4: Cabin, more than that most likely cush it, old miser,
Speaker 4: don't spend nothing, ain't got nothing save that rack of
Speaker 4: bones mass Tip.
Speaker 6: Bailey says, whenever Old snake Doctor sets foot out in
Speaker 6: his place, he's got the granddaddy of all cotton mouths.
Speaker 6: And he leaves out in the cabin to stand god
Speaker 6: over his money. Tip Bailey says, he'd eat Old snake Doctor,
Speaker 6: put him in his pocket, live ones too.
Speaker 7: Snake Doctor ain't fitting a belive hisself.
Speaker 5: Mar says he ain't so bad, says he don't mean nobody.
Speaker 4: Harm yr Mar better be careful who she's so shavan with.
Speaker 4: She says, he just don't have good sands, had the
Speaker 4: fever too much? Daddy, you ever been in snake doctor's place?
Speaker 7: I don't have nothing more than I have to to
Speaker 7: do with that snake loving hohodoo.
Speaker 6: Dip Bailey says he bet it wouldn't be no task
Speaker 6: at tall for some no good to poke around the
Speaker 6: snake doctors shack and maybe find all the money and
Speaker 6: make off with it.
Speaker 5: M blame your son's durnire renting me. Now look my
Speaker 5: head full of sweat.
Speaker 6: Look, daddy, huh see full of sweat, durn near God,
Speaker 6: full of sweat? Come on, why turning down that a way? Paul,
Speaker 6: coming on noon dinner, be most ready.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell the snake loving hoodo that there's some
Speaker 4: of them cotton males on the quick side out, doesn't it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, he knows that.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell him. He's got my leave to catch him.
Speaker 4: You don't need to come.
Speaker 6: Along if you're going over there his place, I'd kind
Speaker 6: of like to see it for my own, saying, go
Speaker 6: on in.
Speaker 5: Paul, he ain't a home else? Why is he to
Speaker 5: shoot his say? If by now I reckon, can you
Speaker 5: see any snakes?
Speaker 6: I told you to keep an eye out for I
Speaker 6: bet it's in one of them chinks, Paul, Paul, bet
Speaker 6: the money is in.
Speaker 7: One of living.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 7: Must be a dang snake itself living in a place
Speaker 7: like kids.
Speaker 6: I know you ain't looking for any money, Paul, But
Speaker 6: ifing you was, wouldn't you look at that the chink
Speaker 6: right up there?
Speaker 5: Where right there second log brother fireplace on the right.
Speaker 5: You see that the hole?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I reckon, I would look up there.
Speaker 5: Since we're here, it might as well see for myself, Paul.
Speaker 6: I wouldn't be a much surprised if old snake doctor
Speaker 6: had him, Paul, Paul, bo was.
Speaker 4: You looking for something, Jake mana snake doctor?
Speaker 7: Yeah? I was looking for you. I won't here, yeah, yeah, uh?
Speaker 4: Look here your hudo? What's side here? Sneaking up on folks?
Speaker 4: Who's took a trouble to come all the way down
Speaker 4: here to do you a favor?
Speaker 7: Huh? Eh, come on, Fenny, were getting out of here, yes,
Speaker 7: like as not.
Speaker 6: They had a dang old Marcus and scratching around in
Speaker 6: his pocket.
Speaker 5: Whils he was talking to you? Daddy? Do you mind
Speaker 5: how his eyes was when he come in.
Speaker 6: Do you mind how I kept looking up at the
Speaker 6: wall where I said, I bet he had the money
Speaker 6: between the chinks.
Speaker 4: Fnny, what don't you say nothing to your more about
Speaker 4: us being at the snake Doctor's. Please you understand why
Speaker 4: you just don't? And don't you go night again? H
Speaker 4: cus old vomit. He thought we was proud of as
Speaker 4: way he acted.
Speaker 5: Prowlers, mall then up already you pull in your time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I got time up for a dinner, got down
Speaker 6: the spring and got me the pole.
Speaker 5: If you tell you stumps you can.
Speaker 8: Catch innyc and Jebb, how.
Speaker 4: You think I can catch fish with fetty? Fine off
Speaker 4: my gun and cut miles all the time.
Speaker 8: M hent his heat on the buddy can bear any
Speaker 8: colder but the creek uh had poured on Miss Rives,
Speaker 8: come buy here spell of gold?
Speaker 7: My knight shook the pieces with a chill. Uhh he
Speaker 7: come by?
Speaker 3: Did he?
Speaker 7: What did he come in?
Speaker 3: Just from men?
Speaker 2: Just for a minute?
Speaker 3: What do he want?
Speaker 5: He wanted to?
Speaker 8: Could have given me some fir zailment, jezbe I could
Speaker 8: drag one sord food afore the other barey could make
Speaker 8: it up here from his place.
Speaker 5: My dosed out.
Speaker 8: Now butler's acre drops wola, give him a little smidge
Speaker 8: and liquor.
Speaker 5: On, h you would please? Don't Jeff don't want me?
Speaker 5: Don't Jeff don't want me? Just poured on mister, mister.
Speaker 3: Mister Ves.
Speaker 4: How many times I gotta tell you that Hoodo's name
Speaker 4: is snake doctor.
Speaker 7: You don't mean nobody know?
Speaker 8: Huh?
Speaker 4: He give made his skin of lost wits, hide and
Speaker 4: teller and you calling him mister Rives. Mmm, you'll be
Speaker 4: calling him honey and sugar next without I lot.
Speaker 5: You please, Jeff please, bad names?
Speaker 7: Eh w I aim? What's his name? Now?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 7: What's your pull?
Speaker 4: Missed Rives name?
Speaker 2: Naw sneez?
Speaker 3: God kiss him on and rubbed the ugly red weld
Speaker 3: on her corny arm and gave the frying pan full
Speaker 3: of sizzling side meat a hopeless nudge. She prayed that
Speaker 3: time and food might take the edge off Jafe's temper.
Speaker 3: Phinney slouched in from the spring, saw the mark on
Speaker 3: her arm.
Speaker 5: Harping, wamping you again, Ma, what'd you do this time?
Speaker 3: She silently dished up the hog back and corn bread
Speaker 3: for her two men. While they sat at table She
Speaker 3: ate on her feet, serving them between bites, as was
Speaker 3: the custom in the morning household. After dinner, Finny stretched
Speaker 3: out under the chinaberry tree. Kissy sat on the porch,
Speaker 3: fanning herself and dipping snuff with a peach twig, scarring
Speaker 3: it back and forth on her gums. Jave took his
Speaker 3: ease on the floor of the back room, but he
Speaker 3: didn't sleep. The meanness was stirring in him, and his
Speaker 3: hatred of the man He couldn't understand, the man who'd
Speaker 3: got rich off a cotton mask. His mind was working
Speaker 3: on something he'd seen that day and another thing he'd heard.
Speaker 3: He was adding them together. That stick could had disappeared
Speaker 3: under the log jam and the snake doctor's money. It
Speaker 3: was four o'clock before any of moved, and then Jave
Speaker 3: spoke to his wife for the first time since noon
Speaker 3: is it?
Speaker 8: Where is that the vile drinking liquor by the wind
Speaker 8: and took it out in your parking before you laid down.
Speaker 5: I ought to carry a votle of liquor with me.
Speaker 5: How much get bit by a moccasin? Sis Paul Wood.
Speaker 7: Better not of that ma kit you find it?
Speaker 4: Jay, I just remembered I won't be needing the total
Speaker 4: special off with me while I'm going.
Speaker 7: I wouldn't take no chance, Dave.
Speaker 5: There just one cotton mailed.
Speaker 4: Bike, gotting mouse dog down the slashers e us along
Speaker 4: a creek. I'll be all this evening's up along Bailey's
Speaker 4: Ridge and.
Speaker 7: A high ground. I fixing the gold shooger.
Speaker 4: And the gummy chances, young squalls, twich non doch time
Speaker 4: with them, barking all ramo this morning, reckon, I come along.
Speaker 4: You staying here? Son, Oh dang it, you'll.
Speaker 6: Be steaming in the place when the rain comes down. Boy,
Speaker 6: you might be neath me.
Speaker 4: You stay here, dang killy, you set me up a
Speaker 4: snack of cold set on the chef, right, Claire, I
Speaker 4: won't get back to this plumb dug.
Speaker 1: In just a moment. We'll return to the second act
Speaker 1: of escape. But first, that wonderful variety show with a
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Speaker 1: the expert showmen on This is Broadway helped them with
Speaker 1: show business problems. And now we returned to the second
Speaker 1: act of escape and tonight's story.
Speaker 3: Snake Doctor Jaith Mourner turned north to his struggling corn rolls,
Speaker 3: and in a minute he was lost from sight. He
Speaker 3: kept on for nearly a mile till he came to
Speaker 3: a wild red mulbery tree. Where there are mulbray's, there
Speaker 3: are bounderby squirrels. Very neatly he shot two young grays
Speaker 3: right through the head. Jaffe was a massed marksman and
Speaker 3: unsuspected by any who knew him. Jave had another quality,
Speaker 3: one that made him more dangerous than the rest of
Speaker 3: his kind. Jave had an imagination. Today it was an
Speaker 3: excellent working order. He tied the brain squirrels together and
Speaker 3: swung him over his shoulder. If needed, they'd be his alibi.
Speaker 3: And Nanny sat down under a tree for a while.
Speaker 3: Got plenty of time. Don't need to get on the
Speaker 3: snake doctor's place. Will about dust when he comes out
Speaker 3: to feed that sway back mare his'n mist ride. He
Speaker 3: sat out two brisk thundershowers and the influence between them
Speaker 3: nan He set off in a wide arc down Barey's Branch,
Speaker 3: along the skirts a little cypress slashed down to the
Speaker 3: sunken flats edge in Cashier Creek. It took more than
Speaker 3: an hour, a careful traveling, for he came to his destination,
Speaker 3: a screen of horse less than fifty yards behind the
Speaker 3: snake Doctor's cabin.
Speaker 4: No matter how alen he is, you get up and
Speaker 4: come out to feed the rackabooms, mare mysteries. We'll I
Speaker 4: learn him to go call. He get around another man's
Speaker 4: woman jay morning.
Speaker 3: The ladies jealousy heat him the white hatred. At this
Speaker 3: moment he was a Vengeaneer's hon Eye didn't admit even
Speaker 3: to himself, but the real reason he was here was
Speaker 3: his snake doctor's money. Hit him behind the log by
Speaker 3: the fireplace.
Speaker 4: Home wrecking snake loving vomit. Well ten minutes from now,
Speaker 4: I'll chunk him down a big hole in a creek
Speaker 4: like I did that stick this morning, and he'd go
Speaker 4: down and never come up, and nobody will miss him.
Speaker 3: Nobody.
Speaker 4: You know, he's gone for leastwise a week, maybe a month,
Speaker 4: and maybe if I could get around to it might
Speaker 4: come back this way some day, book around that cabin
Speaker 4: and his and just to see if it's true's.
Speaker 2: Having all that money hid away.
Speaker 3: Jaff Mourner's speculations were cut short. The cabin door opened
Speaker 3: and a figure stepped out into the growing dusk and
Speaker 3: walked toward the stable. He saw the snake Doctor's lop,
Speaker 3: the old straw hat, and his dog coat drawn over
Speaker 3: a pit. At this distance he couldn't miss, and he didn't.
Speaker 3: The figure jerked backward and then one face forward. Jae
Speaker 3: started for him. Then he stopped. His eyes bugged, his
Speaker 3: mouth formed a scream that he couldn't utter. His rifle
Speaker 3: dropped to the ground. He had just killed the snake Doctor,
Speaker 3: killed him dead with a thirty two caliber slug through
Speaker 3: the head. And there on his door still stood snake
Speaker 3: Doctor hole and sound staring at him.
Speaker 5: Jaye mana, what have you done?
Speaker 3: The scream came at last for Jaf Mourner had seen
Speaker 3: the devil, a snake Doctor, who arose alive from his
Speaker 3: bullet riddled body. Jeaff whirled and ran into the deep
Speaker 3: docking and woods, whimpering like a whipped puppy as he
Speaker 3: tore through the brush. Escape. He must escape this, this thing.
Speaker 3: He must get under the shutter of a sound roof.
Speaker 3: He must have the protection of four walls around him.
Speaker 3: He ran and ran for hours. It was close to
Speaker 3: midnight when he came out on a dirt road a
Speaker 3: short distance southeast of his own land. Beyond the next bend,
Speaker 3: he'd be inside a home. And then he stopped. Around
Speaker 3: the bend. Coming toward him was a joggling lighter landing
Speaker 3: hanging on a buggy. Jake flattened himself in a clump
Speaker 3: of brush to hide until the traveler passed, and then,
Speaker 3: just as the rig was opposite him, he heard a
Speaker 3: call coming from the other direction.
Speaker 5: There who dovey?
Speaker 7: Oh there?
Speaker 6: Oh, ex.
Speaker 5: Me, Davis, ware that you tip Bailey?
Speaker 7: Yeah from the junction tolerible tide? What brings you out
Speaker 7: this time of night, Davis? Somebody's sake, see nothing.
Speaker 9: It's been a postl of trouble of popping in these
Speaker 9: bottoms tonight, stiddy boy.
Speaker 7: Stity, what do you mean a killing?
Speaker 3: That's what I mean.
Speaker 4: You don't see who got killed.
Speaker 9: I'm fixing to tell you it happened just around dusk
Speaker 9: time at down an old snake Doctor's place. Yes, was it?
Speaker 4: He was killed?
Speaker 9: Give me a time tent. It seems like snake Doctor's
Speaker 9: been a chilling lately. It was pretty bad off today.
Speaker 9: So Miss Kissy Mourner she footed it down from her
Speaker 9: place to his, and fetching some physic with her and
Speaker 9: a plate of hot bittles.
Speaker 1: Am I have thought that?
Speaker 7: Miss morning Mighty thought you.
Speaker 9: Want to hear this?
Speaker 2: Hey?
Speaker 9: Oh boy, well pitty. Soon after she got there, it
Speaker 9: seemed like he was tired, and he tried to get
Speaker 9: up out of his bed to go and feed that
Speaker 9: old crowbait nagat his'm it started in again by then,
Speaker 9: pouring down hide. So she made him stay where he was,
Speaker 9: and she put on his old hat and throwed his
Speaker 9: old coat around her. And he wanted to keep out
Speaker 9: of the wet and no more. And she got outside
Speaker 9: and a shot came from the age of the woods,
Speaker 9: and down she went with a bullet through brains killed
Speaker 9: that this is a dog. It was that low flung
Speaker 9: husband or hers done it.
Speaker 7: That's who they shot it with him.
Speaker 3: Sure thing, oh coy, sure thing, that's certain.
Speaker 9: Snake Doctor jumped up when he heard the shot, and
Speaker 9: he catched a quick look at chafe over the fence
Speaker 9: there was no long streak, and kiss his arm where
Speaker 9: he must have walked her during the day.
Speaker 7: Why hanging just shot you good? Did they kitch him?
Speaker 9: No, but they're gonna chef get they get. But he's
Speaker 9: due any minute with his pack of hound dogs tray
Speaker 9: a lot of lay good ground being damned the way
Speaker 9: it is, for sure, old snake doctor. He's just saying,
Speaker 9: the lord's going to strike the murder down in his track.
Speaker 9: But me, i'm'na put my main dependence on their bloodhound.
Speaker 10: Poor miss Marna, she always was a good hearted, hard
Speaker 10: working woman.
Speaker 3: Did that stunt? I shut, Kizzy?
Speaker 4: Did you hear something just there?
Speaker 3: See I did?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: Probably a rabbit breaking through the brede.
Speaker 9: And listen, Yeah, the sheriffs are coming.
Speaker 3: You can hear them hounds of.
Speaker 10: His just for sure.
Speaker 9: I gotta hurry.
Speaker 5: Yeah, come on, I'll see you back at the morna.
Speaker 3: You sure will. Jase didn't waste no time more than
Speaker 3: his dead wife. He had a chance against a pack
Speaker 3: of bloodhounds if he started right away. But Jake's imagination
Speaker 3: went to work again, as if backtracked along the creek,
Speaker 3: but him in the spotty moonlight.
Speaker 4: Gotta throw those dogs off the trail. He got away
Speaker 4: the creak, even if it is full of.
Speaker 3: Hot and mounts.
Speaker 7: Must be all around me. Now, folks say, don't strike
Speaker 7: the water.
Speaker 3: Hoping folks is right.
Speaker 4: I've got to get back to the snake doctors. Get
Speaker 4: his money while he's still up at my place, and
Speaker 4: kisses remains. Get his money and the rest will be easy.
Speaker 4: I'll make for the deep timber cross country to the river.
Speaker 4: Make it for tomorrow sundown. Find me a shanty boarder
Speaker 4: to ferry me to the Arkansas side. Will get me
Speaker 4: a haircut, and catch me a train for someone else.
Speaker 4: I got to get snake Doctor's money first.
Speaker 3: Snake Doctor's cabin was dark and empty when Jay reached it,
Speaker 3: only a few dull embers in the fireplace. But he
Speaker 3: knew where the chink was. He'd find it in the dark.
Speaker 3: He scrabbled the logs, felt some bark, He felt the
Speaker 3: clay more to crumble under his fingernails. There it was
Speaker 3: a hole big enough for a man's arm. He plunged
Speaker 3: his hand into it, touched something slick and smooth, and
Speaker 3: then something sharp plunged into his thumb at that with
Speaker 3: the fire flickered to life. Jay yanked his hand out
Speaker 3: of the hole, saw two tiny bleating punctures in his thumb.
Speaker 3: At the mouth of the hole stretched the wide open
Speaker 3: jaws of a cotton mouth. It worked fast. He felt
Speaker 3: the pain leaping from his thumb to his hand, seeping
Speaker 3: up his arm. If only he had some liquor, if
Speaker 3: he had a fresh kilt chicken the slap on the wound,
Speaker 3: but he had nothing. Then a sharp, horrible pain wrenched
Speaker 3: his heart, and then a second, and there, in the firelight,
Speaker 3: the huge cotton mouth poised in its crevice. Jay fleeped
Speaker 3: out of the shack, started blindly for the timber. His
Speaker 3: stagger stumbled. Then he pitched forward on his face, his
Speaker 3: open mouth full of weeds and muddy grass stems. The
Speaker 3: cramping fingers of his outstretched right hand almost touched a
Speaker 3: reddish black smear on the wet, trampled grass rittens by gravy.
Speaker 3: I'd call it that, would ju I reckon.
Speaker 10: There's a sort of rough justice in the way he died.
Speaker 10: Look his hand reaching out just about touching the blood
Speaker 10: where his woman fell. But in all my life I've
Speaker 10: never known but two or three people actually was bitten
Speaker 10: by water moccasins, And until tonight, I've never had personal
Speaker 10: knowledge of anybody dying from the bite of any kind
Speaker 10: of snake is a fact, you know.
Speaker 5: I'm to hit rifle off now, I'm gonna kill the
Speaker 5: dang rappertile.
Speaker 10: And kill my ba Mourner's boy kicking up the first
Speaker 10: yep and no good like his paw call me, I'm
Speaker 10: the boss man. What's the trouble?
Speaker 7: Tip Henny Hears.
Speaker 5: Went out and he's hey, I'm to kill the snake
Speaker 5: that bitten my paw.
Speaker 6: Then I'm making that snake doctor humping for keeping a
Speaker 6: repertile in this place.
Speaker 7: Your paw, God, what was his do?
Speaker 9: Finney?
Speaker 5: Snake doctor ain't to blame. He's a who de devil.
Speaker 10: Look here, Barr, mister Rives, give me all his savings
Speaker 10: nearly one hundred dollars to pay for billing your mother decent.
Speaker 10: That's how much you thought of her. Now go on home,
Speaker 10: behave yourself in the Finnis.
Speaker 7: There ain't no reason for your hanging around here.
Speaker 5: Somebody ought to kill a reptile.
Speaker 7: Doc.
Speaker 9: Just a minute ago you started to say something about
Speaker 9: snake bite, not killing about them two marks on his thumb.
Speaker 3: Then snake's gashes like some I've seen.
Speaker 10: Oh that don't explain.
Speaker 5: It's finny Morna.
Speaker 7: He's in the cabin, the fool kid. Come on, doc,
Speaker 7: he's probably shot.
Speaker 5: Let's gonna get me like you got my po.
Speaker 7: Said he shot at something in the cabin. Come on, doc,
Speaker 7: let's go see.
Speaker 10: All right, I don't see anything.
Speaker 9: Then he's had enough happened to him yesterday and today
Speaker 9: to upset even a bride boy.
Speaker 3: So we can't.
Speaker 7: Oh there it is what that cotton mouth up there
Speaker 7: in that hole in the log over.
Speaker 10: There, Snake Doctor told me about that vombit look at
Speaker 10: him closer, David, No, sir, not me, Go ahead. It's
Speaker 10: just a stuffed snake.
Speaker 7: Stuff.
Speaker 10: Snake Doctor believes in precautions because that holes where he
Speaker 10: hides his money. That snake would scare away anybody who
Speaker 10: didn't know it was stuffed. But just to be sure,
Speaker 10: old snake Doctor lined the hole with coils of barbed wire.
Speaker 5: I see you mean them marks, and Jeff's thumb.
Speaker 1: Was got off the barbed wire.
Speaker 3: That's right, sir.
Speaker 10: Lots stronger hearts and jeef mourners would stop beating at
Speaker 10: a scare like that.
Speaker 3: Be switched.
Speaker 7: Old Snake Doctor is a cute one any.
Speaker 3: Escape.
Speaker 1: Produced and directed by Norman MacDonald. Tonight brought you Snake
Speaker 1: Doctor by Irvin S. Cobb, adapted for radio by Fred Howard,
Speaker 1: starring Bill Conrad as jaf with Paul Freeze as Finney
Speaker 1: featured in the cast, where Ira Grossel as a narrator,
Speaker 1: Bill Lally, Ruth Perrott, Wilms Herbert, and Edgar Barrier. Music
Speaker 1: is conducted by Wilbur Hatch.
Speaker 2: Next week, you are groping through the midnight dimness of
Speaker 2: a gigantic department store, and suddenly you realize that a
Speaker 2: hundred eyes are staring at you from the shadows, and
Speaker 2: a hundred hands are reaching for your throat, and your
Speaker 2: most urgent desire is to escape.
Speaker 1: Next week we escape with John Collier's story Evening Primrose
Speaker 1: be with us next week at the same time, when
Speaker 1: once again we offer you escape, Ethelbert is at the
Speaker 1: barn and in case you are about to enter on
Speaker 1: another thrilling crime photographer adventure Tonight, it's a story entitled
Speaker 1: Big Danger, and it will be along on most of
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Speaker 1: John Jacob speaking. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System,