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He sprang up with a shriek and ran screaming toward an opening in the woods. "It was a snake a great, big, nasty, bitey snake!" he sobbed. "I put my hand right on it all slippy and cold!" He looked back was it a snake after all? What was that curved black thing that lay there so quietly at the foot of a tree? Then Sunny Boy did a very brave thing indeed.
Father had brought his strychnine flask with him that day, and in hopes of causing the death of a few dingoes, had put strong doses of its contents in several dead beasts which we had come across. Whilst the dogs were being muzzled, I busied myself in plucking ferns and flowers. This disturbed a big black snake which was curled at the butt of a tree fern. "Bitey! bitey!"
And then I look at my chum, the girl I've known all my life, and I think well, sugar is all right, but you can't get on without salt and pepper and ginger and " "Jimps!" In spite of herself Georgiana was laughing infectiously, and Stuart joined her. "How absolutely ridiculous! I sound like a whole spice box, and nothing but the 'bitey' spices at that."
"You wouldn't accept, anyway," I began. "How do you know?" "You wouldn't leave town, would you?" "Yes, if you required it." "What? Go to Florida?" "Y-yes if I must." "But think of the alligators! Think of the snakes big, bitey snakes!" "Gracious!" she exclaimed, eyes growing bigger. "Indians, too! unreconciled, sulky Seminoles! Fevers! Mud-puddles! Spiders! And only fifty dollars a week "
"But I'll fix all that." "You can't if you break your contract." "Why not?" "Because," she said, flushing up, "I should not accept." "You don't understand " "Really I do. You are going into a dangerous country and you're afraid I'll be frightened." "It's something like that." "Tell me what are the dangers?" "Alligators, big, bitey snakes " "Oh, you've said all that before!" "Seminoles "
Mother Golden continued, triumphantly. "I feel it pricking through the gum this minute. And he so good, and laughing like a sunflower! Did it hurt him, then, a little precious man? he shall have a nice ring to-morrow day, to bitey on, so he shall!" "I suppose, then, he must be as much as a week old," hazarded Adam, in an offhand tone.
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