He seated himself at last before the piano, a full half-yard distant, stretching out his arms full-length, like an ape clawing for food,his feet, when not on the pedals, squirming and twisting incessantly,answering some joke of his master's with a loud "Yha! yha!"

" "You needn't mind them a bit, Marm," answered Mr. Jones; "they none of them will strike you, if you don't meddle with them; and as for the rattlesnake, why, as folks call the lion the king of beasts, I say the rattlesnake is king of creeping things; he don't come slyly twisting and crawling, but if you get in his way, gives you sorter warning before he bites.

She then bit it severely and with all her might, at the same time pulling and twisting violently, often placing the entire weight of her body on the finger.