This story about Mr. Arthur Montgomery comes from his daughter Lillie and was relayed to me by Philip Lord.
Mr Arthur was living in Atlanta with Lillie - but was always longing to go back to the old home place in Wilkinson County to stay for a few days. Lillie finally gave in and drove him back to Wilkinson County to stay for awhile, and she would call every day to ask how things were going. One day he told her things were okay - except that he'd been bitten by a rattlesnake. Lillie almost had a heart attack and bombarded her father with questions: Who did he call - why hadn't he called her - and had he seen a doctor? When she finally paused, Mr. Arthur told her that he hadn't called anyone and that he was doing just fine. This really upset her and she was was just about ready to drive down to Wilkinson County when he informed her not to worry - that the snake had gotten the worse end of the deal. He went on to tell her that the snake had bitten his wooden leg and that the snake must have been pretty surprised - and just crawled away.
At that point, Lillie was beginning to believe that she had been taken in by one of her father's shenanigans, but he told her to calm down, assured her that he was OK, and that she could just come back to get him on the day they'd agreed to earlier. When she came down from Atlanta, sure enough, she found a hole in the leg of the pants her father had been wearing the day the snake had attacked him, and a little scar on the wooden leg was the balance of the evidence to support Mr. Arthur's story.
Mr. Arthur was a known jokester-prankster - and I leave it to the reader to decide for himself whether his snake encounter is truth or fiction.
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