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Just went wild over these Berkshire Hills, this spring, over his first sight of mayflowers! They seemed more of a treasure than the fortune he wanted to part with. Hiff-f!" Before the eyes of both girls rose the clamor of color "blooming round" in old Tory Cave the armful of passë blossoms flung down at the "rattler" scare.
He kept his eye peeled, as he would have expressed it. Also, he left Rattler just under the crest of the ridge, took off his spurs, and with his rifle in his hands went forward afoot, as he had done every time he had approached his cabin since the day he found the corral and the cattle in the canyon.
Then somehow his foot slipped, the decayed substance of the tree crumbled under his weight. He screamed in terror as he fell in a heap at Kiddie's feet, followed by a shower of dust and strange, dry rottenness that was mingled with the syrup from the honeycombs. "What is it?" cried Kiddie. "What made you scream? Another rattler?" "No." Rube shivered. "That!"
But as this is rather difficult, what we ought to be careful about is, that we never fight except in a good cause and with a clear conscience. It was well for Martin Rattler, on that great day, that the formation of the ground favoured him.
Jones grabbed my hand and cried out with a voice that was new to me: "You can eat? You're better? You'll get over it?" "Sure. Why, carbolic acid never phases me. I've often used it for rattlesnake bites. I did not tell you, but that rattler at the cabin last night actually bit me, and I used carbolic to cure the poison." Frank mumbled something about horses, and faded into the gloom.
It was on as bright an evening as ever shone upon Brazil, and in as fair a scene as one could wish to behold, that Martin Rattler and his friend Barney experienced a new sensation.
Rattler, about a week ago, had not seen any reason why the Ministry should not endure at least for the next four years. Mr. Roby, from the other side, was equally confident. But, on looking back at what he had done, and indeed on looking forward into his future intentions, he could not see why he, of all men, should be Prime Minister.
I told the story of my bearded youth and asked: "Where then is the safe ground? When is it altogether reputable for one to declare his real age?" "Oh, anywhere from thirty to forty-five! Before and after that term life can hardly be said to be worth the living." I smiled, as the rattler meant I should.
Rattler and Mr. Roby." "I am assured that they are inseparable since the work was begun. They always had a leaning to each other, and now I hear they pass their time between the steps of the Carlton and Reform Clubs." "But what am I to do? One must be Patronage Secretary, no doubt." "They're both good, men in their way, you know."
That was just as well. We hung him up to the windmill, and when I went down to the kitchen, I found Antonia standing in the middle of the floor, telling the story with a great deal of colour. Subsequent experiences with rattlesnakes taught me that my first encounter was fortunate in circumstance. My big rattler was old, and had led too easy a life; there was not much fight in him.
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