But why did he not kill all the rattlesnakes at once?
After some discussion Souwanas decided to tell them the Nanahboozhoo story of how he lessened the power of the rattlesnakes to do harm.
For a moment they all sat as if entranced in a communion of cruelty, and to Bruce they seemed like a colony of spotted rattlesnakes such as sometimes hold their communions of hatred on the sun-blasted cliffs.
There was a ledge of rocks just in front--a place such as therattlesnakes had loved in the blasting sun of summer--and a black hole yawned in its side.
They were the wolves that struck from ambush, the rattlesnakes that lunged with poisoned fangs from beneath the rocks.
These are the poison people--the gray rattlesnakes that gather in mysterious, grim companies on the rocks--and the only safety from them is thick covering to the knees that the fangs cannot penetrate.
Now two rattlesnakes were also saved in the earthen jar, because in the olden days rattlesnakes were the friends of man.
Where the rattlesnakes hiss and the wind blows free-- There was an abrupt breaking-off after "free.
The incident of the black eyes had at first interested him only because they were her eyes, but now he thought also of the episode of the rattlesnakes and the letter from Major Withers.
Dyke Cappeze was the one man to whom Spurrier had confided both the circumstances of his mysterious waylaying and the matter of the rattlesnakes and now the father was not discounting the peril into which his daughter had strayed.
He paused, then added with a grim facetiousness: "As for your other suggestion, we have no rattlesnakesin our equipment.
But now we know that this is not the case, for the owls are nearly always found in deserted burrows, while the rattlesnakes undoubtedly enter the homes of the prairie-dogs for the purpose of feeding upon their young.
According to Bernal Diaz, living rattlesnakeswere kept in the great temple of Mexico as sacred objects.
The body is that of a deformed human frame, and the place of arms supplied by the heads of rattlesnakes placed on square plinths and united by fringed ornaments.
Its form is partly human, and the rest composed of rattlesnakes and the tiger.
The head, enormously wide, seems that of two rattlesnakes united, the fangs hanging out of the mouth, on which the still palpitating hearts of the unfortunate victims were rubbed as an act of the most acceptable oblation.
Subsequent experiences with rattlesnakes taught me that my first encounter was fortunate in circumstance.
We had to be on our guard there, for rattlesnakes were always lurking about.
I dashed after him, kicking up several rattlesnakes who had not time to bite me, Ready running by my side, and our pursuer, as the ground was smoother, following faster than ever.
No mad dogs, " rattlesnakesand centipedes, tarantulas and scorpions.
There are rattlesnakes to be seen and heard about the mountains in hot weather.
It was much otherwise, however, with regard to rattlesnakesand panthers.
It might have been reasonably suspected to be the den of rattlesnakes or panthers; but my late contention with superior dangers and more formidable enemies made me reckless of these.
The professor grabbed Bob, who was nearest him, and swung the boy around, so as to get the nest of rattlesnakes between them and the steers.
He had a box of rattlesnakes which he would allow to twine round his neck and bite him, for a dollar.
It is claimed that the Moquai Indians, during their Snake Dance, allow rattlesnakes to bite them, and after applying the juice of a certain herb suffer no ill effects from the poison.
The small montane rattlesnakesbelonging to the species C.
Taxonomic studies of the rattlesnakes of Mainland Mexico.
There are manyrattlesnakes of a large size in this valley and it is supposed they have dens in the mountains.
A number of the horses have been bitten by rattlesnakes and one is dead.
There have been many rattlesnakesseen today and six or seven killed.
In this thick brush wood and around here there are many very large rattlesnakes lurking, making it necessary to use caution while passing through.
Don't Statistics show that Amos Colvin came to this state when it was in the hands of Greasers and rattlesnakes and Comanches, and fought day and night to make a white man's country of it?
This same defense posture also was observed in rattlesnakes when presented with the odor of the spotted skunk, Spilogale phenax.
Several rattlesnakesthat he tested showed a higher toxicity than copperheads or cottonmouths.
Variation in venom samples from copperheads (Agkistrodon contortrix mokeson) and timberrattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus horridus).
Likewise, the venom of most species of rattlesnakes would be expected to be more virulent when injected into mammals than when injected into lower vertebrates.
Toxicity of the venom is difficult to determine because of numerous variables, but cottonmouth venom is generally believed to be less potent than that of most rattlesnakes and more potent than that of the copperhead.
Defense and Escape The typical threatening posture of rattlesnakes is all but lacking in the cottonmouth, which relies primarily on concealing coloration or nearness to water for escape.
Rattlesnakes and cottonmouths in particular are killed by the thousands at these times because they seek shelter in human habitations.
Here ravens were first seen by the party, and numbers of large banded rattlesnakes were killed.
The circumstance of the discovery of these bones renders it somewhat probable, that rattlesnakes were formerly worshipped by the natives of America, and their remains, like those of the Ibis of Egypt, religiously entombed after death.
Rattlesnakes are not common anywhere in those portions of the canyon much visited by the Havasupais, but now and then one may be found on the trails or basking in the sun on the rocks near by.
The Painted Desert Region is a country whererattlesnakes are washed, prayed over, caressed, carried in the mouth, and placed before and on sacred altars in religious worship.
In all my years of wandering to and fro, though, I have not seen a half-dozen rattlesnakes in Havasu Canyon.
The rattlesnakes have a powerful enemy in the numerous hogs, belonging to the settlers, running about the woods, which are very well skilled in catching them by the neck and devouring them.
Gophers did not move at all, and rattlesnakes had long since sought winter dens in which the frost could not touch them.
Rattlesnakes were one commodity that the swamp did produce in abundance, and they'd killed all three of the dogs Andy had tried to keep.
But a rain fell and he lay soaking in it all night, drinking what gathered in a rock pool beside him, with rattlesnakes and lizards, he said, crawling up to drink with him and he never cared.
In answer came this: "I never had any rattlesnakes in my bed, though I fancied I had one night.
There are not many rattlesnakes now--you see, we kill them.
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