“The swiftest snake I have ever known is the blue racer, as we used to call the reptile in the Arkansas foothills, and I want to tell you this particular snake can travel like a blue streak,” said a man from Arkansas.
“The fact is, the name ‘blue racer’ was given to the snake because of the reptile’s fleetness. I have seen blue racers dart across the road at such a rapid pace that you could only see a mere suggestion of blue, and if you did no happen to know the snake and its habits you would not know what it was.
You could not possibly get the idea through the dust of the country road unless you knew something of the blue racer. Just what speed the snake makes I do not know, but is is a rapid pace. The rattlesnake is supposed to have good speed, and, as a matter of fact, the rattler can whiz along at a pretty swift gait, but the rattlesnake is not in it with the blue racer. It would be interesting to know just how fast different snakes travel, and if we knew I dare say we would find that the blue racer is about the fleetest thing in the reptile family.
