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And Tony, still sitting on the wolf skins, stretched out his arms and clasped them about North Eagle's knees. Mrs. Allan was right the Indian boy had risked his life to save her son from danger. Rattlesnakes were so rare in the Blackfoot country that it gave them all a great shock.
"'When Boone beholds me, says Dave, 'annex his gun he almost c'lapses into a fit. He makes a backward leap that shows he ain't lived among rattlesnakes in vain. Then he stretches his hand towards me an' Yuba, an' says, "Don't shoot! Let's take a drink; it's on the house!" "'Yuba, with his nose still a peaceful gray, turns from the gun an' sidles for the bar; I follows along, thirsty, but alert.
"The plains and the mountains, the woods and the creeks, and the wonderful air " "An' the rattlesnakes, an' the alkali, an' the soap-holes, an' the quicksand, an' the cactus, an' the blisterin' sun, an' the lightnin', an' the rain, an' the snow, an' the ice, an' the sleet " The girl interrupted him with a laugh: "Were you born a pessimist, or has your pessimism been acquired?"
Simon's, whither we are going 'rattlesnakes, and all kinds, says he, with an affluence of promise in his tone that is quite agreeable. Rattlesnakes will be quite enough of a treat, without the vague horrors that may be comprised in the additional 'all kinds. Jack's account of the game on St. Simon's is really quite tantalising to me, who cannot carry a gun any more than if I were a slave.
A little conversation with these gentlemen dispelled all the captain's fears, and the Beaver crossing the bar under their pilotage, anchored safely in Baker's Bay. Active Operations at Astoria Various Expeditions Fitted Out. Robert Stuart and a Party Destined for New York Singular Conduct of John Day. His Fate. Piratical Pass and Hazardous Portage.-Rattlesnakes. Their Abhorrence of Tobacco.
As they crouched on the ground they looked like two little white savages, and they were neither comfortable nor happy. "We must keep this fire going all night," said Roldan, "or we shall be eaten by bears, to say nothing of rattlesnakes " "Hist!" whispered Adan. "I hear one." Both boys sprang to their feet. "Where?" "Near the horse."
The rattlesnakes and the Lenapes, ere many suns shall pass, will be enemies, and each attempt the extermination of the other." "Oh, we will not talk of that now," answered the priest; "we will put all thoughts of the evil day afar off. We will smoke with you, snake."
He bites, and his bite is supposed to produce hydrophobia, which means death out here. He is, therefore, known as the hydrophobia skunk. Go into any desert camp just before turning-in time and you will hear the desert wanderers speaking of rattlesnakes and skunks. Every man who knows those two pests is actually afraid of them." "This is a fine time of day to tell us," complained Nora.
And may it be that you can never move without making a noise with those rattles, so that people will always be able to hear them and thus get ready to fight you, or to get out of your way before you can do any harm." "Well done, Nanahboozhoo!" shouted little Sagastao. "He's the one for me. But why did he not kill all the rattlesnakes at once?"
The owls, no doubt, live on little prairie-dogs, and the rattlesnakes may sometimes eat an old one. Still, there it is; they never seem afraid of each other, and no one, as far as I knows, has ever seen a prairie dog fifty yards away from his town. The rummest thing about them is as every town has got its well.
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