Mister Sandman
“Garter snakes, milk snakes, green snakes, rat snakes, lots of little deKays the colour of golden-brown sugar. A good thirty snakes all told. Is that possible? Snakes in every spill of sun, on rocks and in the mouths of their pits. Most of them solitary but some in groups of four or more, a haphazard tossing and mortally still like an aftermath.
They threw them into Tony’s wagon. There were so many they didn’t bother about the ones that poured like tributaries over the sides of the wagon as Tony... pulled and Gordon pushed it home.
And is it possible that Tony’s mother let them unload the snakes on her front porch? This is how Gordon remembers it. He and Tony sitting on the porch rail, herding the snakes with sticks and dropping bait worms on them, but the snakes wouldn’t eat, so the worms dried and the next day their fishhook shapes were all over the porch as if to illustrate the manner of death they’d been braced for.
By then the snakes were gone. Gordon and Tony had kept them only a few hours before hauling them back to the creek and tipping them out of the wagon.MoreLess
They threw them into Tony’s wagon. There were so many they didn’t bother about the ones that poured like tributaries over the sides of the wagon as Tony... pulled and Gordon pushed it home.
And is it possible that Tony’s mother let them unload the snakes on her front porch? This is how Gordon remembers it. He and Tony sitting on the porch rail, herding the snakes with sticks and dropping bait worms on them, but the snakes wouldn’t eat, so the worms dried and the next day their fishhook shapes were all over the porch as if to illustrate the manner of death they’d been braced for.
By then the snakes were gone. Gordon and Tony had kept them only a few hours before hauling them back to the creek and tipping them out of the wagon.MoreLess
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