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Updated: May 29, 2025
The candour of the morning laughed upon the river; and there came a little steamer into the dazzling water, her smoke heeling over, coiling and uncoiling like a snake, and casting tremendous shadow in her train a line of boats laden to the edge with deal planks. Then the haze heaved and London disappeared, became again a gray city, faint and far away faint as spires seem in a dream.
The enemy for whom he had long sought was delivered into his hands. He ran back to the bronco and untied the reata from the tientos. Deftly he coiled the rope and adjusted the loop to suit him. Again he stole to the rim rock and waited with the stealthy, deadly patience of the crouched cougar. Roush rose. His arms fell to his sides. Instantly the rope dropped, uncoiling as it flew.
"Oh, but you might just as well look over them at once," said Lancelot firmly, uncoiling them. "It won't take you five minutes just let me play one to you. The tunes are rather more original than the average, I can promise you; and yet I think they have a lilt that " "I really can't spare the time now. If you leave them, we will do our best." "Listen to this bit!" said Lancelot desperately.
With his right he seized a blazing firebrand, and with this he touched each of the eggs in turn. At once five horrible looking snakes began uncoiling, blue flame surrounding the spot at which each emerged from its egg. Vooda then shouted loudly, calling on the name of Impandulu, and making mystic passes over the coiling horror with his fire-brand.
They are always in motion except when the animal is perfectly at rest coiling and uncoiling themselves, like the trunks of elephants, seeking to grasp, apparently, whatever comes within their reach. The coaita can apply its tail to all sorts of uses. So delicate is its touch, that one would almost think it possessed the power of sight.
Just before he passed, at twenty or thirty feet from her, the lasso shot from his hand, uncoiling as it flew, and in an instant its loop was round her horns. "Well cast!" said Dick, as he galloped up to her side and dexterously disengaged the lasso. "Now for a horse on the run!" He had the good luck to find one, presently, grazing in a pasture at the roadside.
A smartly-attired sailor was pretending to find some work in carefully uncoiling a rope which did not satisfy his critical eye. Before Fairholme could hail the man, a rotund form, encased in many yards of blue serge, surmounted by a jolly-looking face on top of which was perched an absurdly small yachting cap, emerged from the companion. "Why, there he is," shouted the earl. "Halloa, Daubeney!
The boat was leaving one of those long reaches of slack-water which abound in the Ohio and Pennsylvania Canal. He tumbled out of bed in a hurry, but half awake, and, taking his stand on the narrow platform below the bow-deck, he began uncoiling a rope to steady the boat through a lock it was approaching. Finally it knotted, and caught in a narrow cleft on the edge of the deck.
"Stretch out your arms, Willie; give me all the rope you can, but don't fall in. In mercy take care!" he shouted. Willie stood on the very edge of the bank uncoiling the whole of the rope, and keeping only the end in his hands.
"One evening I was sent for. Something had been seen on the plain coming in our direction. I had not brought my field-glass and I could not distinguish things clearly. It looked like a great serpent uncoiling itself a convoy. How could I tell? "I sent some men to meet this strange caravan, which presently made its triumphal entry.
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