Montezuma's Castle And Other Weird Tales - 9781717280312

No, said the curiosity dealer, "that mummy is not for sale. I had too big a job to get it." "Tell me about it," I asked. The curiosity dealer carefully closed and locked the case, and then meditatively rolled a cigarette. "Well, it was this way: you see I was out after snakes and other natural history specimens. I had a special order from a chap in New York for three hundred snakes-he wanted some big rattlers. I think I sent him some that pleased him; anyhow he paid for them all right. I had a customer who wanted a rattlesnake with a very big rattle, and I fixed up a snake for him on this trip and sent it to him afterwards. It had one hundred and eighteen rattles! I glued a lot of rattles together, and by taking off the buttons it was pretty hard to see where they were joined. This rattle was more than a foot long.

• • Author: Charles B. Cory
• • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: May 15, 2018
• • Number of Pages: 96 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1717280315
• • ISBN-13: 9781717280312