Fishing for TreasureAdventures in Junk

Now, Bill has never been afraid of snakes. Fam­ily lore has it that as a boy he went on mis­sions to clean water moc­casins out of the swim­ming hole. He would lay out fish­hooks and lines on the bank to cap­ture them, and then string the tro­phies together to impress the other kids.

I only heard of him bring­ing a snake into the house once. It was a cop­per­head in a jar. He’d decided to keep it in his room. Luck­ily, his Dad found it before his Mom did. If it had been the other way around he’d have likely fin­ished his child­hood in mil­i­tary school.

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