There is an exhibition quite uncommon in Europe, which could not have escaped your genius,a live rattlesnake, ten feet in length, and the thickness of a big leg.

Through the scorching sunshine ran scorpions and lizards, pursued by enormous rattlesnakes.

'Oh,' said I, 'Louisa; but the rattlesnakes, the dreadful rattlesnakes in the swamps; were you not afraid of those horrible creatures?'

His expression vibrated from that of a mad rattlesnake to that of a dog with the most downcast extremities.

You see, I come from that frightfully exciting West, and I know all about the pet rattlesnakes and the wildly Bohemian cowboys.

A piece of one of our common coal plants is conjured into a petrified rattlesnake, and one of the most familiar fossils solemnly announced all the way from Canada, under a name exploded, and long forgotten by naturalists.

When this incident was mentioned in the Kansas Academy of Science that year, some one said, "Now we know the effect of the bite of the prairie rattlesnake on the human system.

When his wife spoke to him, he snapped back at her like an angry rattlesnake, and asked her why she had never tried to develop a mind of her own.

Venomous rattlesnakes are used in the dance, which is an annual affair.

AN ULM "It is as you say; he is not handsome, certainly not beautiful as flowers and the stars and women are, but he has another sort of beauty, I think, such a beauty as made Victor Hugo's monster, Gwynplaine, fascinating, or gives a certain sort of charm to a banded rattlesnake.