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"He's a snake in the grass," said Tom. "He'd pat you on the back with one hand and cut your throat, figuratively speaking, with the other." "Do you think he'd recognize me?" asked Quincy. "I think not," said Tom. "His perceptive powers are not strong. He's sub-acute rather than 'cute." Quincy and Alice sat for hours looking out upon the wide expanse of ocean, and at the blue sky above them.
And it is a general law, that, the more closely any animals resemble one another in adult structure, the longer and the more intimately do their embryos resemble one another: so that, for example, the embryos of a Snake and of a Lizard remain like one another longer than do those of a Snake and of a Bird; and the embryo of a Dog and of a Cat remain like one another for a far longer period than do those of a Dog and a Bird; or of a Dog and an Opossum; or even than those of a Dog and a Monkey.
Grasping each other by the hand, with terrified looks they rushed from the spot and disappeared. Several men ran up, ending the snake with their sabres. One of them stooped, and examining the carcase of the dead reptile, exclaimed: "Carai! there is a hole in his head he has been shot!"
His pride yielded to his superstition, and he sank to his knees also. When the sound of the worshipping had passed away Juanna spoke again, addressing the old priest. "Rise, my child," she said he might well have been her great-grandfather "and rise all ye, soldiers of the Spear and servants of the Snake, and hear my words.
Of course we look into the Black Lough where St. Patrick imprisoned the last snake. Of course we had pointed out to us the top of Mangerton, and were told of the devil's punch bowl up there.
When had a troop of enthusiastic students and hastily-collected peasant-soldiers ever been able to snake an effectual stand against the hosts of Rome?
They didn't get one steer, Bud!" he added, proudly enough. "That's good," said the boy rancher. "But they did an awful lot of shootin'," added Snake. "I thought sure we'd all be hit, but Old Billee was th' only one what got it. I never heard so much Fourth of July since I was a kid."
"But Uncle Stonington says they are small at least, near where we are going. Some people have them for pets." "Mercy!" cried Grace. "I'd as soon have a pet snake." "Well, we won't worry about them until we get bitten," suggested Mollie. "And perhaps their bark is worse than their bite. Do they bark, Amy?" "I'm sure I don't know." "No, they cry like babies," said Grace.
I've seen him keep a chip in the air fer two or three seconds shootin' under it with a six-shooter! I've seen him roll a bottle along the ground as if you was a-kickin' it, shootin' between it and the ground and never chippin' the glass. Bad! You ask Snake Murphy if he's bad.
She did not act frightened nor at all anxious; she simply seemed interested, and inclined to close investigation. Was she fascinated? Were the old stories of snake power over birds true? Our interest was most intense; we did not take our eyes from her; nothing could have dragged us away then.
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