Baby Rattlesnake Legend
Illustration
by Michael P. Green

A workman on a road construction crew told this story of a time when he was working on a project deep in the mountain area of Pennsylvania. Every morning as he drove to work in his pickup, he would see a young boy at a fishing hole near the road. He would wave and speak to the boy each day. One day, however, as he drove slowly past the fishing spot and asked how the boy was doing, he got a strange reply: “The fish aren’t bitin’ today, but the worms sure are.”

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Baker Books, 1500 Illustrations for Biblical Preaching, by Michael P. Green