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Updated: June 1, 2025
As she came by, the Grand Stand began to sing with one voice: The maid of our mountains Mocassin's her name! The speed of the panther; The heart of the flame; The Belle of the Blue Ridge, The hope of the plain, The Queen of Kentucky, O, lift her again Chanted thus by tens of thousands of voices, singing round the course and up into the heavens, and culminating in the roaring slogan Mocassin!
"The sole of a shoe cuts the grass sharper than a mocassin. We have no easy task just now, and if the others come they may prevent us from finding the track altogether." "Here, again," said Strawberry, stooping close to the short dry grass. "Yes, you're right, child," replied Malachi. "Let us once follow it to the bottom of this hill, and then we shall do better."
Wanting the pliancy of movement given to it by the light mocassin, the booted foot of the young officer, despite of all his precaution, fell heavily to the ground, producing such a rustling among the dried leaves, that, had an Indian ear been lurking any where around, his approach must inevitably have been betrayed.
The whistler rose and rubbed his ear, aggrieved. "What's that for?" he asked. Stanley scowled down at him. "Whistlin' that at Putnam's o' Sunday." "What were I whistlin' then?" asked the aggrieved urchin. "Mocassin Song," said the haughty Stan. "Now no more of it!" "I didn't know I were whistlin' it," replied the youth. "He whistles it in his dreams, Alf does," explained a little pal.
It soon produced a dark green decoction, which I swallowed; it was evidently a powerful alkali, strongly impregnated with a flavour of turpentine. I then cut my mocassin, for my foot was already swollen to twice its ordinary size, bathed the wounds with a few drops of the liquid, and, chewing some of the slices, I applied them as a poultice, and tied them on with my scarf and handkerchief.
As she left the Paddock and entered the course, the people rose to her en masse. Storms of cheers greeted her and went bellowing round the course. The Canal tossed them back to the Grand Stand, and the Embankment was white with waving handkerchiefs. Mocassin! Mocassin! Mocassin!
In the meantime the woman who had waked him, brought him some food in bark dishes worked with porcupine. "Eat," she said to the Dahcotah; "you are hungry." But who can tell the fury that Mocassin Flower was in when she saw that strange woman bringing her husband food. "Who are you," she cried, "that are troubling yourself about my husband? I know you well; you are the 'Bear-Woman."
And in support of the theory, it must be said that Mocassin, in spite of her lovableness, had in her more of the jaguar than of the domestic cat, grown indolent, selfish, and fat through centuries of security and sleep. "Wild as the wildman and sweet as the briar-rose," was the saying they had about her in the homestead where she was bred.
When the horse sinks and the rider leaves the saddle, the only thing he can do is to return back upon his track; but let him beware of these solitary small patches of briars, generally three or four yards in circumference, which are spread here and there on the edges of the cane-brakes, for there he will meet with deadly reptiles and snakes unknown in the prairies; such as the grey-ringed water mocassin, the brown viper, the black congo with red head and the copper head, all of whom congregate and it may be said make their nests in these little dry oases, and their bite is followed by instantaneous death.
Once established in the pride of place, the fret and fever left her, she settled down to gallop and jump, and jump and gallop, steady as the Gulf Stream, strong as a spring-tide, till she had pounded her field to pieces. The thousands waiting for the Mocassin rush were not disappointed.
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