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027- Snake Doctor -national broadcast

Escape · February 8, 1948 · 29 min · 4,599 words

The transcript of “027- Snake Doctor -national broadcast”, an episode of Escape first broadcast February 8, 1948. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Escape plays Escape free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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The Adventures of Christopher Wells program formally scheduled at this time is now broadcast at a new time on Tuesday evenings Union for the Adventures of Christopher Wells next Tuesday and every Tuesday at 9 30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time You were standing at the doorway of a cabin on Cassia Creek upon the ridge the bloodhounds of Cottia sent and

Between you and a fortune between you and escape Yawn the white jaws of a deadly cotton mouth Escape, reduced and directed by William N. Robeson, and carefully can drive to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure.

Tonight we escape to the worn out acres of a poor white trash farmer somewhere in the southern mountains, in Ervin S. Cobb's great tale of vengeance. Snake Doctor. This story is about snakes and two men.

One man was afraid of snakes and the other wasn't. The one who wasn't was known along Cashair Creek as Snake Doctor. His cabin was near the Creek Bottom Land where there was a powerful lot of cotton mouts.

Andy earned his meager living by rendering down their soft fats, bottling the oil and selling it. For everyone knew there was no remedy for rheumatism like Snake Oil. Snake Doctor was harmless enough, but there were folks who honestly believed that he was a colleague of Bill's above, just because he wasn't afraid of snakes.

And that's not all they believed about him. Now, the man who was afraid of snakes was J. F. Moener, who was Snake Doctor's nearest neighbor. Jayf was the kind of man we all know, who suspected, feared, and hated anything he didn't understand.

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