We caught another rattler two hours later, and got off at Patacne, which is about three miles west of here.

Dad had got out of the Jungle and copped a rattler.

"I saw him kill a rattler once," she said in a low voice.

Now a fresh man, young and supple, bounding into the ring, revived the flagging rattlers, drummers and trumpeters; now a wearied dancer, finding his strength going, gathered all his force at the cry of "Dancé zisqu'a mort!" rallied to a grand finale and with one magnificent antic fell, foaming at the mouth.

Hundreds of snakes are caught for the occasion, and when the great day arrives the devotees rush into the corral and each seizes a rattler for his purpose.