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Bob, If that is a Texas tall tale it is the funniest one that I have ever heard outside of Texas itself:) Not that Texas is funny, I do not wish to get on your bad side aftter the *torment* that you went through yesterday. I thought the one that I heard when I lived in SC took the cake but your day was the best I have ever seen. It seems a fisherman out fishing on Lake Marion in SC always worried about water moccasins and with justification if anyone knows about them in the south. He was fishing near the shore and was watching them swimming around his boat as they are curious. As he was swatting at one which had circled to the back of his boat he hadnt noticed that he had drifted under a tree branch. The lake is full of trees stumps just as you described and one has to be alert when on the water for them. His first awareness of this branch was when a snake dropped into his boat in front of his feet. He happened to have a pistol as so many fishermen carry, and fired mulitple shells at it. Suddenly he realized that the bullets had pierced his boat and it was sinking rapidly. He had two choices; to go down with his boat and take a chance on the depth or abandon his * ship * and take his chances with more snakes. Needless to say, it took him a long time to live down the teasing that he received from his buddies who wondered who was the prize him or the boat on the bottom.? And to think that he didnt even get a bite that day either...:) *seattle* Audrey friend of pwp aussie John 49/42/38??