And if I had a quarter I would buy that green and yellow snake in the toy-store window and wiggle it at people and scare them into fits.

Things being thus, what can be more charming than a rural excursion to some tangled thicket, the very brambles, and poison-ivy, and possible copperhead snakes of which are points of unspeakable value to a picnic party, because they are sensational, and one cannot have them in the city without rushing into fabulous extra expense.

Then they began to sing this song: You spotted snakes with double tongue, Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen; Newts and blind-worms do no wrong, Come not near our Fairy Queen.

He realized that the elk had taken the snake at his word, and had gone into exile.

I don't blame a snake for being what it is.

" The words had no sooner escaped my lips than I regretted having spoken, and without delay I hastened to make amends by explaining that I was in truth frightened at the idea of venturing into that nest of snakes from which we had once barely gotten away with our lives.

ST. PATRICK emptying the snakes out of his boots.

What if the torch and the odor of flesh should draw the snakes to the sleeper?

From the gully they snaked through the dry grass to a small ditch that had been built to drain the camping-ground during spring freshets.

I never could do them with my mother satisfactorily with the Murdstones sitting by; their influence upon me was like the fascination of two snakes on a wretched young bird.

These fellows take their snakes about in small bags or boxes, which are perfectly harmless, their teeth and poison-bags being extracted.

Veterans who had been in the form for terms said afterward that there had been nothing to touch it, in their experience of the orator, since the glorious day when Dunster, that prince of raggers, who had left at Christmas to go to a crammer's, had introduced three lively grass snakes into the room during a Latin lesson.

SEE Ditmars, Raymond L. DITMARS, RAYMOND L. Snakes of the world.

With a light framework of wood, covered, bottom and deck, excepting the hatches, with the skin of the hair seal, it is lighter than any other canoe, pliable, but very staunch, and works its way over the waves more like a snake than a boat.

The title of it is, "Concerning Snakes in Iceland," and the contents are, "Snakes in Iceland there are none."

And some did lie about the fire-hole, and some did hunt about in the rocks; and one came presently, and had a snake by the neck.

In fact, as mum tells it, I seem to have deliberately gone out of my way to befriend snakes as a child.

"There's a terrible poisonous snake under our tent," replied Miss Peckham.

My company found fairly good hiding-places in the thicket near at hand, Jacob and I creeping out to the edge of the foliage in order to keep watch upon the old soldier as he made his way like a snake over the plain, which was almost entirely destitute of vegetation.

A drop of blood taken from the ear shows hundreds of these young snakes beneath the microscope.

Was it the Snakes on his trail?

At the first sight of their unholy prows, rising like water snakes above the waves, all the defenceless inmates and refugees, all the church plate and valuables, and all sickly or aged brothers were hurried into these monastic keeps; the doorsset at a height of from ten to twenty feet above the groundsecurely closed, the ladders drawn up, food supplies having been no doubt already laid in, and a state of siege began.

Round this drum a wire cable was coiled, and a length of the cable stretched like a snake across the field to where it ended in a swivel, made fast to the bottom of the riding car.

Blocks, axes, Whitehall tribunals, were covered with flowers of so cunning a periphrasisas Mr. Bayes says, never naming the thing directlythat the keen eye of an Attorney General was insufficient to detect the lurking snake among them.

While he was in such pain that his heart ceased beating, his fingers curled like snakes around the handle of his revolver.