Larry Dablemont

That flock of eleven is something I will not forget seeing. We didn’t get a deer that afternoon; in fact, we never even saw one. We did see a wild gobbler and a half-grown wild pig, coal black, and hard to see in the underbrush.

Floating down the river in November and December of the 1960s as a kid with my dad, hunting mallards and wood ducks from our old johnboat, if we saw a few Canada geese on the river and actually had a chance to bring one home, it was a never to be forgotten experience.

The terms "spreading adder" or "hog-nosed viper" are common names for the harmless little snake, given to them by Ozark rural people.