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In order to gain the horses, they had to move in a semicircle. When they reached the animals, they found the steeds exceedingly nervous and inclined to bolt. "Reckon they smell the snakes," was Todd's comment. "A hoss ain't got no use for rattlers and I ain't nuther," he added, and rode away, with the boys beside him. "What about the grouse?" asked Phil, mournfully.
Belshazzar went before to give warning if any big rattlers curled in the sun on the hillside, and after him followed the Harvester cutting leaves in heaps. That was warm work and he covered his head with a floppy old straw hat, with wet grass in the crown, and stopped occasionally to rest. He loved that yellow-faced hillside.
The real struggle, however, lay in the appropriate distribution of the Rattlers and the Robys, the Fitzgibbons and the Macphersons among the subordinate offices of State. Mr. Macpherson and Mr. Roby, with a host of others who had belonged to Mr. Daubeny, were prepared, as they declared from the first, to lend their assistance to the Duke. They had consulted Mr. Daubeny on the subject, and Mr.
"You just imagine such things. That's what cigarettes do to your nerves." "But don't you hear the rattlesnake?" "I don't," Tom gravely informed him, though once more the nerve-disturbing sound rose clearly on the air. "See here, Alf, rattlers, whatever their habits, certainly don't climb trees. I'll put you up on that limb."
"As long as you didn't get bitten," said Lew, "It's a good thing it happened. We'll be on our guard now." "Yes, indeed. Did you put the potassium permanganate in the first-aid kit, and the hypodermic syringe?" "Surest thing you know." "We'll just carry them with us, Lew. We won't take any chances on death by snake-bite. These mountains are full of rattlers and copperheads."
They did not hear the first peal of the midnight clock, until the sudden darkness which that stroke heralded reminded them of the hour. The place which had blazed with light was now as black as some sea-floor cavern, and that should have been the signal for a hundred horns and rattlers and shouts of greeting, and the reaching of hands to meet and grasp other hands across the tables.
"Tell me anything you can," said Pierre gently, "because I've got to try to be like him, haven't I?" "You could try till rattlers got tame, but it'd take ten like you to make one like Hal. He was dad's own son he was my brother." The sob came openly now, and the tears were a mist in the boy's eyes. "What's your name?" "Pierre." "Pierre? I suppose I got to learn it." "I suppose so."
Earlier in the day, I cautiously shook the sticks loose from the matted grass, fearing the rattlers which were everywhere. In this case nothing buzzed. But I had no sooner got my fire well started when a rattler began to sing, roused by the light and the heat, about twenty feet away. My fire was built beside one of the many sloughs which cut back through the grass and ended in the barren soil.
As soon as the first dancer was rid of his snake he went for another, and we noticed that he was always given rattlers. Some of the other priests had thin, nervous whip snakes; some had big, sluggish bull snakes; but at least eighty per cent of the snakes were active, angry rattlers. The first dancer was an old man, gray-headed, and rather stooped.
In the other, there is the same movement in single file round a circle, but every two persons, a man and a woman, or two men, face each other, the one moving forward, the other backward, and all keeping step to the music of the singers, who are now, however, aided by a a couple of tortoise or turtle shell rattlers, or an aboriginal drum.
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