Passage

John Timothy is four score and four years old and in spite of his age , he has been a very active and alert snake -catcher. He is the proud owner of a snake farm and hasbeen associated with snakes for more than half a century perhaps , it would be not an exaggeration to say that John Timothy. He will travel many thousands of miles just to see a rare type of reptiles . Most of his leisure hours were spent in tracking and catching reptiles. It was a hot Sunday morning and ideal for the snake hunting. He had been searching carefully without success for over an hour , when a faint rusting sound caught his ears. He spotted the latter half a male adder diapered slowly into the tangle of grass which surrounded the base of a small birch bush. he laid his fork - like stick across the snake's back and pressing it hard against the ground , he picked it up by the tail and swung it in the air. The reptiles headed downwards.