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Updated: May 24, 2025
Hildreth and I, a-field, had found a bed of that exceptionally poisonous mushroom named Pallida something or other ... the book said its poison was kin to that of the poison in the rattlesnake's bite. My eyes met with Hildreth's ... we needed say no word, both thinking the same thought that frightened us!... "how easy it would be !" Now we were plumbing the darker side of passion.
The feathered end of his shaft titillates harmlessly enough, but too often the arrowhead is crusted with a poison worse than the Indian gets by mingling the wolf's gall with the rattlesnake's venom. No man is safe whose unguarded threshold the mischief-making questioner has crossed.
She is dazzled by his showiness and his fluency, his horsemanship and his dancing; but love him she does not It is fascination, such a fascination as leads a moth to flutter round a candle, or a bird to drop into the rattlesnake's mouth, and never was flame more dangerous, or serpent more deadly. He is unworthy of her, Lucy, thoroughly unworthy.
A man can't go on always pokin' his finger into a rattlesnake's jaw without gittin' it nipped sooner or later." "I'm looking fur a man called Si Klegg," they heard behind them. Looking around they saw the tall, gaunt woman whom they had turned back from entering the camp a few days before, under the belief that she was trying to smuggle in whisky.
Here we are in the rattlesnake's paradise. Nine species are found along the Mexican border; and no wonder. The country seems made for them, the rocks, cliffs, canyons, pitahayas, Joshuas, and all the rest of it.
"You'll be saying next that she can make rattlesnake's teeth sprout out of the ground." "She's got a mighty funny garden patch," admitted Betty, still credulous. Then she jumped up and ran along the road. "Here's Virginia!" she called sharply, "an' I beat her! I beat her fair!" A second little girl came panting through the dust, followed by a small negro boy with a shining black face.
"That certainly is a corroboration of the story that you told us of the rattlesnake'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.
They seemed solemn and ancient things, sailing the blue air: perhaps co-oeval with the mountain where they haunted, perhaps emigrants from Rome, where the glad legions may have shouted to behold them on the morn of battle. But if birds were rare, the place abounded with rattlesnakes the rattlesnake's nest, it might have been named.
Dot mule he has a soreness by his mouth. I vill knock off your shoulders mit your head robbermans!" "Yi-yi!" howled Rattlesnake, roaring with laughter and ducking his head, "somebody git this here sour-krout off'n me!" One of the band yanked Fritz back by the coat-tail, and the woods rang with Rattlesnake's vociferous comments. "The dog-goned little wienerwurst," he yelled, amiably.
The young doctor restrained the crushing answer that rose to his lips. He had learned caution in that neighborhood. "I couldn't say," he said indifferently. "'Tain't no religion," said Slocum emphatically; "it's jest pure fas'nation. Did ye look at his eye? It's like a rattlesnake's, and them wimmin are like birds. They're frightened of him but they hev to do jest what he 'wills' 'em.
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