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Updated: May 26, 2025
"That certainly is a corroboration of the story that you told us of the rattle-snake's fang in the boot." "It is so; but although there are so many venomous snakes in this country, it is remarkable how very few accidents or deaths occur from them.
I wonder " But, as in the case of Slim, he did not finish what he started to say, for there came an interruption, in its way almost as sinister as the whirring of the rattle-snake's tail. Toward the ranch buildings came the sound of rapidly galloping hoofs, and as they all looked in the direction of the sound they saw, riding in toward them, one of the cowboys.
Canonchet, son of Miantonomo and grand nephew of Canonicus, was chief of the Narragansets. When the colonists first became acquainted with this tribe, Canonicus was their sachem, but his nephew Miantonomo was associated with him in the government. This sachem was never a friend to the English, and he early sent to Plymouth a bundle of arrows bound in a rattle-snake's skin as a war challenge.
Bloomfield turned to an article on America, in the periodical in question, and read from it several disparaging expressions concerning Mr. Howel's native country, one of which was, "The American's first plaything is the rattle-snake's tail." "Now, what do you think of this assertion in particular, Mr. Howel?" she asked, reading the words we have just quoted.
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