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quite often. So when a "straw-boss" job opened up he gave it to me. It was one of those important jobs where you stick one thumb in your mouth and the other one in your hip pocket and every five minutes change thumbs.
Work in the bend consisted of cutting and stacking wood, building check-dams and as in all government projects - goofing off.
One of the workers caught a bull snake one day. He put a pinch of snuff on the snakes tongue and it killed the snake in a matter of seconds.
A day or two later a red head by name of Pete Smith caught a rattle snake. He gave the rattler the snuff treatment. It took a little longer but death came in a matter of minutes.
Another thing that lived in the Bend were big grasshoppers. These hoppers had no wings and were about the size of a mans thumb with legs to match. They weren't very destructive because they couldn't fly and weren't in to large numbers.
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