But say, a measly rattler hasn't any close season; he's a fit object for business, summer or fall.
Guess that's what they mean when they say a rattler charms people.
Palm Desert, which we intended to cross the next morning, to the Mexican dry diggings, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, when the battle between the eagle and rattler furnished the topic of conversation all the afternoon.
The eagle recovered from the shock, stood motionless a few seconds, while the rattler watched as only a rattler can, and spreading out its wings, toppled over.
It was the day we lost Rattler and the bronks," He added accurately.
It was all very well to explain missing horses by the conjecture that the Injuns must have got them, but Buddy happened to miss old Rattler with the others.
It was like walking on your toes past a rattler curled up asleep somewhere, afraid you might spoil his nap.
Rattler had come north with the trail herd, and he was wise beyond the wisdom of most horses.
Ward might neglect his stock, but he would never neglect Rattler like this.
Still, he waited until he had made reasonably sure that the bluff held no watcher concealed before he went back to where Rattler waited patiently.
She walked beside him down to the corral where Rattler was waiting, saddled and bridled for the homeward journey.
Rattler kicked up his heels in disdain at the threat and trotted alongside them.
He thrust it in to heat, led Rattlerinto the corral, and closed the gate securely behind him.
Billy Louise led Rattler boldly up to where lay her saddle and Ward's bridle.
Rattler was standing near, and she tried to lead him in also, but he fled from her approach.
I broke it myself, pulling Rattler off a bank into some rocks.
Ward "flagged" the den by throwing his coat down before the opening and went back to where Rattler waited.
She ran down bareheaded to the stable, sawRattler industriously boring his nose into the stack, and put up the gate.
Rattler turned naturally into the trail which ran up the creek to the ranch, but Ward immediately turned him out of it.
The shock of the fall took him out of his fit of abstraction, and he pulled away from Rattler as the horse scrambled up and stood shaking before him.
He wheeledRattler unobtrusively, his eye on the pinto.
The first thing to do is to put this rattler beyond the power of doing mischief.
Suppose he knew that rattler was sent to you yesterday.
You must have Meg saddled for me and brought to the door at half-past eleven, and I shall want Rattler saddled for Pym at the same time.
Well, since I can't go to Eagledale, I'll have a gallop on Rattler to Norburne this morning, and lunch with Gawaine.
Probably for two reasons--the greater amount of venom secreted, and the superior power with which the rattler drives its fangs home.
Why, then, is the rattler pre-eminent over its more virulent cousins?
He ran to his father and said, "The rattler has bit me.
One day when he was sawing wood his little five-year old boy, Jim, took the lid off and the rattler wriggled out and struck him in the cheek.
The father ran and chopped the rattler to pieces, and with his jackknife he cut a chunk from the boy's cheek and then sucked and sucked at the wound to draw out the poison.
There are some so-called Christian homes today with books on the shelves of the library that have no more business there than a rattler crawling about on the floor, or poison within the child's reach.
The rattler was all of ten feet long and as thick around as a good-sized fence rail.
The rattler was less than six feet away, and the scout knew that he could cover that space with ease.
The second shot went true to its mark, and the rattler dropped back with a hole through its ugly head.
The time for action had come; another moment and the rattler would be wound around his legs.
I think Rattler the better dog," said Regnard, coming forward and patting Rattler, who took no manner of notice of Francezka, while Bold overwhelmed her with evidences of affection.
He circled the rock as a wolf will circle a coiled rattler which it does not see.
I've been out now for about three weeks; and night before last, just as I stopped to make camp and before I'd started to unpack, my two mules got scared at a rattler and quit the country.
And the boy is still very young—" "A rattler with only one button on the tail carries as much poison as a ten-button one.
You don’t kill a rattler by cutting off his rattles—you go for the head.
