The Shedding Snake
from Hawthorne — A Family Saga
## The Shedding Snake Told in the voice of William Claude Hawthorne — "Grandpa Claude" — a cotton farmer of Janesville, West Carroll Parish, Louisiana. A morning in the cotton field with his granddaughter Sandra, a rattlesnake in the shade, and a quiet man's lesson about a creature caught between its old skin and its new. From the Hawthorne family's own record.
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