Bicentennial Story #87-Pet bull snake

Bicentennial Story #87-Pet bull snake

Account of the Adolph Schuhrke family pet bull snake.

8/29/1975

Mrs. Walter Schwartz

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BS-087

Belfield, ND

Copyright Stark County Historical Society and Dickinson Museum Center

The Adolph Schuhrke family of Belfield had a very unusual pet in their pioneer days---a friendly bull snake! When the boys first saw it they wanted to kill it, but Mr. Schuhrke told them that bull snakes were good because they kept rattlers away. So the bull snake became a family pet and would crawl up into the tree branches that were used as rafters in their shanty, and spend the night there. In the morning the girls would set out a saucer of milk and the friendly snake would crawl down the walls to drink it. The children had no fear of him, for they were convinced that he was their protector against the dangerous rattlers.

This is Bicentennial Story No. 87, prepared by Mrs. Walter Schwartz for the Belfield News.

Belfield News, April 12, 1962

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Bicentennial tape #6, Bicentennial stories 87-107