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Updated: June 3, 2025
"Has he got black, snaky eyes and high cheek-bones?" the conductor inquired thoughtfully. The barrister had described a fair man, with brown hair; and the question in no way indicated the colour of the Hume-Frazer eyes. Yet the odd combination caught his attention. "Yes," he said, "that may be the man." "Well, sir, I didn't pick him up there, but I dropped him there at nine o'clock.
The wind had ceased somewhat on the morning of the third day, but the snaky rollers were still racing after the flying yacht. A watery sun peeped out from between the driving cloud masses, the rays glinting through the heads of the waves that curled menacingly as the battered yacht drove through them.
How my old-young friend "Blister" Jones acquired his remarkable nickname, I learned one cloudless morning late in June. Our chairs were tipped against number 84 in the curving line of box-stalls at Latonia. Down the sweep of whitewashed stalls the upper doors were yawning wide, and from many of these openings, velvet black in the sunlight, sleek snaky heads protruded.
There had been no female feignings either, affected misapprehensions, gapy ignorances, and snaky subterfuges, and the like, familiar to men who have the gentle twister in grip. Straight on the line of the thing to be seen she flew, and struck on it; and that is a woman's martial action. He would right heartily have called her comrade, if he had been active himself.
The next one he ducked under, throwing him over his shoulder and down the stairs. Another he swept against the wall with a crash. They were over him and around him, slugging, kicking, and pushing. He fought mechanically, and with incredible efficiency, striking with a snaky speed and accuracy that would have amazed any one capable of noting it. But they were too many for him.
I looked at the string of birds, and saw that they were mallards and teals, a couple of dozen at least. "Fie, fie!" said I. "I fear you've been shooting on the water." "Sure I did! And here's four things that I don't suppose are good to eat they got kind of snaky heads, and red-colored, too. Ain't no ducks good to eat that ain't got green heads."
And truth to say, to have seen him regaling himself with one of his favorite cuttle-fish, its long snaky arms and feelers instinctively twining round his head as he ate; few intelligent observers would have opined that the individual before them was the sovereign lord of Mondoldo. But what of the banquet of fish?
Have mercy, goddess! Circe, feel my prayer!" Ulysses had been warned by Circe of the two monsters Scylla and Charybdis. We have already met with Scylla in the story of Glaucus, and remember that she was once a beautiful maiden and was changed into a snaky monster by Circe. The other terror, Charybdis, was a gulf, nearly on a level with the water.
But instead of getting up and looking his enemy in the face, he wriggled along on his belly, still under cover of the Kamlayka, till he got to the bear-skin, pushed it aside with a motion of the hooded head, and crawled out like some snaky symbol of darkness and superstition fleeing before the light. "Brother Paul!" sobbed the girl, "don't, don't tell Sister Winifred."
But there ain't near so many as there used to be, an' some day there won't be any at all." "After this I am going to beware of holes that look snaky," was Roger's comment. "I think if a rattlesnake got close to me I'd be paralyzed with fright." As they went on, they kept their eyes open for more game, and just before resting for dinner Dave saw some grouse high up in a tree in a hollow.
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