The water was up in the river swamp and my Dad, Uncle Parley and I were paddling late one evening in high water looking for cows to rescue when we saw a deer swimming a little ways in front of us. We decided to try and catch him. As we were paddling as hard as we could, we went under some low branches and a pretty good size snake dropped into the boat. There was a good bit of scrambling around in the boat and any thoughts of catching the deer vanished. The snake got out of the boat before I did.