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Kiddie looked down at the tight shut jaws of the gin. "Thar's a tuft of black fur in the teeth of the trap," he pointed out. "An' look at them claw marks! Guess that critter's some bigger'n a lynx. May's well stay another night in this camp an' try ter git the critter, eh?" "Dunno 'bout that," Rube demurred. "Might be a whole fam'ly o' rattlers lyin' around. 'Tain't just healthy."
Whenever he did so, a number of energetic youths, salaried for the purpose, were distributed among the audience as claqueurs the words actually used for them being perhaps translatable as "boomers" or "rattlers."
Not only would his fear prevent his own proper worship, but it would interfere with that of his comrades. Variety of Snakes. There were few snakes at Oraibi, the year I last saw the dance there, but those they had were active and vicious. There were several rattlers, some red racers, and a few bull snakes.
"Reade, what I discovered is that you have a lot of the finest manhood in Arizona just wild with respect for you," declared Mr. Ellsworth. Then the general manager lowered his voice before he resumed: "At the same time, Reade, I've also learned that you've stirred up such an evil nest of rattlers that you'll be fortunate if you escape with your life.
The young cigarette fiend was at that instant engaged in rolling one of his paper abominations. Click-ick-ick-ick! "Rattlers again!" shivered Alf. Paper and tobacco fell from his fingers and he fled in terror. Two nights passed without adventure. On each of these nights the three campers -for Alf didn't "count" divided the hours of darkness into three watches, each standing guard in his turn.
I must never go to the garden without a heavy stick or a corn-knife; she had killed a good many rattlers on her way back and forth. A little girl who lived on the Black Hawk road was bitten on the ankle and had been sick all summer. I can remember exactly how the country looked to me as I walked beside my grandmother along the faint wagon-tracks on that early September morning.
He drew back a little, as he spoke; it might be simple disgust; it might be fear; it might be what we call antipathy, which is different from either, and which will sometimes show itself in paleness, and even faintness, produced by objects perfectly harmless and not in themselves offensive to any sense. "Lord bless you," said the woman, "rattlers never touches our folks.
Bud liked it all except the blistering heat and the "side-winders" and other rattlers. He did not bother with trying to formulate any explanation of why he liked it. It may have been picturesque, though picturesqueness of that sort is better appreciated when it is seen through the dim radiance of memory that blurs sordid details.
I found myself going to sleep with my supper untasted, and leaving White Mountain to tidy up I went to bed with the sand for a mattress and the stars for a roof. Some time in the night I roused sufficiently to be glad that all stray rattlers, bull snakes, and their ilk were securely housed in the kivas being prayed over by the priests.
"Just see how unstrung you are. Every step you take you imagine you hear rattlers sounding their warning." "Do you tell me, on your sacred honor," proposed Alf, "that you haven't heard a single rattler this afternoon?" "I give you my most solemn word that I haven't," Tom answered. "Come, come, Alf! What you want to do is to shake off the trembles. Let me take your arm. Now, walk briskly with me.
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