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 |  |\n|  |  |\n|  |  |\n|  |  |\n|  |  |\n|  |  |\n|  |  |\n|  |  |\n|  |  |\n|  |  |\n|  |  |\n|  |  |\n|  |  |\n|  |  |\n|  |  |\n|  |  |\n| 3AYLOP   | PRINTED IN U.S.A.   |\n\nIrvinL.Young Memorial LibraryWhitewater,Wisconsin  \nhttps://archive.org/details/oldben0000unse  \nABOUT THE BOOK  \nFor Shan,it began as an ordinary summer'sday.He was doing what he liked best,walk-ing barefoot down a well-worn cow path to aclover field where he knew a sweet apple treegrew.  \nThen he met Old Ben,a big bull blacksnake,sunning himself in the clover,andthat summer day and all the days thatfollowed until early fall became extra-ordinary.  \n\"The only good snake is a dead snake.\"That's what Shan's father had always said.But Old Ben with his gentle,friendly wayschanged that saying and brought a newunderstanding about snakes to every mem-ber of Shan's family.  \nThis is a quiet story,touched with thewonder of discovery and the tensions of dailysurvival.The Kentucky mountain land andits people come vividly alive as do the detailsof the snake.For Kentucky has been JesseStuart's home since birth and,as a boy,hekept his own pet black snake.  \nALSO BY JESSE STUART  \nThe Beatinest BoyThe Rightful Owner  \nA Penny's Worth of CharacterRed Mule  \nAndy Finds a WayA Ride with Huey the Engineer  \noldben  \n# JESSE STUART\n\nillustrated byRICHARD CUFFARI  \nMcGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANYNew York·  Toronto·  London  ·  SydneySt.Louis ·San Francisco ·Mexico ·Panama  \nWHITEWATER PUBLIC LIBRARY  \nTo our grandson,Conrad Stuart Juergensmeyer  \nOLD BEN  \nText copyright 1970 by Jesse Stuart  \nIllustrations copyright @1970 by Dick Cuffari  \nAll Rights Reserved.Printed in the United States of America.No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored in a re-trieval system,or transmitted,in any form or by any means,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,or otherwise,without the prior written permission of the publisher.  \nLibrary of Congress Catalog Number:74-101173  \n23456789o 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