" Just at that moment, the mother, to her horror, saw a deadly reptile coiled in the very path along which the child was rolling his "bushee," and with true frontier woman's pluck, ran and snatched up the bare-footed Fernando, when only within two feet of the deadly serpent, carried him to the house, and with the stout staff assailed and killed the rattlesnake.

He put on his green spectacles an' looked at them as if he'd seen a rattlesnake.

But the moon created the rattlesnake and caused it to bite the coyote's son, so that he died.

Galloping along the road after leaving the marshes, I scared an ox who was feeding leisurely, and to my great dismay saw the foolish beast betake himself with lumbering speed into the 'bush:' the slaves will have to hunt after him, and perhaps will discover more rattlesnakes six or twelve feet long.

A mussurama in his possession, which had with impunity killed and eaten several rattlesnakes and representatives of the lachecis genus, also killed and ate a venomous coral-snake, but shortly afterward itself died from the effects of the poison.

The Major, moreover, had a vivid recollection of his last night's bed upon the roof of the limousine, where he had crept to escape rattlesnakes, and was in no mood to again camp out in the open while they traveled in Arizona.

Now, Lily Panel, you don't mean to tell me that you thought I was goin' ter murder this feller?" Mrs. Panel looked at Leveson with an expression which I have seen in the eyes of foothill mothers, whose children run barefoot, when they have found a rattlesnake.

You got fresh rattlesnake venom?" "I got a rattlesnake from Jamrach's.

I rode on, and the next object that attracted my attention was a very startling and by no means agreeable onean enormous cypress tree which had been burnt stood charred and blackened, and leaning towards the road so as to threaten a speedy fall across it, and on one of the limbs of this great charcoal giant hung a dead rattlesnake.

One genus includes the rattlesnakes, of which the big Brazilian species is as dangerous as those of the southern United States.

I hope these poor little fluffy things will not meet any rattlesnakes on their way back to the woods.

It was on the thirteenth of October last, in the early mornin', that I mistook that rattlesnake for a chunk of wood and heaved him in the stove.

We have ridden over to Hamilton again, to pay another visit to the Fs, and on our way passed an enormous rattlesnake, hanging dead on the bough of a tree.

How come, I've plugged a rattlesnake by just shootin' at the sound when he was coiled down where I couldn't see him.

I eventually succeeded in doing it however, and placing the whistle between my lips, put forth my hand to recover my rifle, when, to my horror and dismay, I saw, within four feet of my face, a huge rattlesnake.

As I was collecting specimens for the natural-history museum of Cambridge, I canned the largest snakes that I came across, and I secured one rattlesnake which measured nine feet; but the fear of his kind never damped my enthusiasm for the luxuriant forest.

So he sont a rattlesnake fer ter sting 'im, but de rattlesnake say de nigger's heel wuz

Don't you think one might accept the rattlesnakes, or perhaps indeed the slavery, for the sake of the green peas?

Then the chief took a rattlesnake from which the fangs had been extracted, brandished it into the faces of the shuddering women, and threatened them with dire things if they did not live lives of chastity, industry, and obedience, until some of the terrified squaws shrieked aloud and fell swooning upon the ground.

He had captured a rattlesnake, and, in trying to introduce it into a jar filled with alcohol, the snake managed to bite him on the hand.