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Frogs are croaking; those persistent frogs whom the muses have ordained to sing for aye, in spite of Bion and all tuneful poets dead. We sit and watch the water-snakes, the busy rats, the hundred creatures swarming in the fat, well-watered soil. Nightingales here and there, new-comers, tune their timid April song.
Their Skins, if good of that kind, are valuable, provided they are kill'd in Season. The Water-Snakes are often found to have of these Rats in their Bellies. They never borough in the Ground, but much frequent Marshes and Meadow-Land.
During my stay in the suburbs I only found a few water-snakes, basking in the sun amongst the wilderness of aquatic plants that cover the surface of the water in the creeks.
They believed that these deep holes were infested by water-snakes, though they never saw any, and they expected to be bitten by snapping-turtles, though this never happened.
Then the crystal water, shooting the old black mill-wheel, fell off it like the beard from Duff Salter's face, and went away in pools and flakes across a meadow, under spontaneous willow trees which liked to stand in moisture and cover with their roots the harmless water-snakes. A few cottages peeped over the adjacent ridges upon the hidden dale. "What a restful place!" exclaimed Podge Byerly.
How Two Girls were changed to Water-Snakes, and of Two Others that became Mermaids. Pocumkwess, or Thoroughfare, is sixty-five miles from Campobello. There was an Indian village there in the old times. Two young Indian girls had a strange habit of absenting themselves all day every Sunday. No one knew for a long time where they went or what they did. But this was how they passed their time.
Here his companions were owls, water-snakes, and sleeping buzzards. "I am alone," he told himself, "on a railroad embankment, entirely surrounded by alligators." And then he found he was not alone. In the darkness, illuminated by a match, not a hundred yards from him there flashed suddenly the face of a man. Then the match went out and the face with it.
The livid, yellow eels, like great water-snakes, swam after the unfortunate horses which were attempting to make their way to the opposite shore. But in a short time I observed that the animals appeared less alarmed; they no longer erected their manes, while their eyes expressed less pain and terror.
The Girl-Chenoo Of the Girl who married Mount Katahdin, and how all the Indians brought about their own Ruin How a Hunter visited the Thunder Spirits who dwell on Mount Katahdin The Thunder and Lightning Men Of the Woman who married the Thunder, and of their Boy How Two Girls were changed to Water-Snakes, and of Two others that became Mermaids Ne Hwas, the Mermaid
Was it possible that an hundred serpents could have surrounded the camp? Brought suddenly to his feet, Leon stood for some moments uncertain how to act. He fully believed they were snakes anacondas, or water-snakes no doubt that had just crept out of the river; and he felt that a movement on his part would bring on their united and simultaneous attack upon the sleeping party.
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