Their passes admitted them into the inky darkness of the snake tent where the reptiles, in glass tanks, writhed back and forth in the glare of electric lights turned full upon them.
"Wait a minute, I dropped my pass," whispered Ward.
The next moment a woman began to shriek and to jump up and down and wring her hands.
THE SIDE SHOWS
"It's out!" screamed the woman. "Oh-oh! It's out and it's got me! Save me! Save me!"
As Polly told her mother later it was "creepy" to hear these screams in the darkness of the tent, and a dozen voices began to ask:
"What is it? What's the matter?"