![]() ![]() ![]() Never never never will the hair turn into a living snake. You can test The story with a horsehair in a bottle of sunlit water. With the help of the sun and the water, the hair turns into a living hair snake. It says that the Hair snake begins life when a horsehair falls into the drinking trough. The story has been handed on, and most of us have heard it. Long ago someone invented an amazing story to explain the horsehair snake. And when people cannot so1ve a mystery, they tend to make up a fancy answer to explain it. Naturally this makes us curious about where the stringy creatures cams from. Yesterday, perhaps, there were no hair snakes in the horse trough. Both names suit him, because the skinny fellow looks for all the world like a hair, perhaps two feet long a coarse hair that might have come from the tail or mane of a horse. Then we do notice him we call him the hair snake or the horsehair snake. But sometimes he gets into the trough of water where the horses drink. This long, stringy animal lives in creeks and ponds where we hardly notice him in the muddy water. Many young peop1e have put a hair from a horse's tail into a jar of water, hoping it wilt turn into a snake. ![]() Perhaps you have tested the story to see if it is true. Then chances are you have heard the strange story of the horsehair snake. Maybe you live in the country where there are horses and other friendly farm animals. Tom Schaffer, age 9, of Boise, Ida., for his question: Do horsehairs really turn into snakes? ![]()
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