It emerged for the last time, tiny as a snake upon a chess-board of far-off fields.
Then it dipped into mist; thesnake shot into its hole.
In snake bite a straight incision penetrating into the flesh or muscle should be made across the center of the swelling and in the direction of the long axis of the face.
As snake bites are usually attended with considerable depression, which may terminate in stupor, it is advisable to give a stimulant.
A special antitoxin for use in treating snake bite is now prepared and may be had from the leading druggists.
In cases of snake bite the swelling is soft or puffy and its limits are not well defined.
It must be borne in mind that the object of treatment is to ward off the stupor, which is one of the results of snake bite.
He raced after a fearsome Water-snake on a sunny bank, and, scared by the fury of his onslaught, the Snakeslipped out of sight.
In short, we may reckon the poisonous snakes with which we have any practical concern at four kinds, and the chance of a snake found in the house belonging to one of these kinds stands at less than one in ten.
With this intent he repaired to the garden with all the apparatus of his art, his flat snake baskets, his mongoose and his crooked pipe.
Without looking at the snake he rushed out and, falling on his face on the ground, implored the bystanders to take care of his wife and children as he was a dead man.
The tread of a barefooted man does not make noise enough to warn a snake to get out of his way, and if he treads on one, there is nothing between its fangs and his skin.
And so, ever since the Honourable East India Company was chartered, the antidote to snake poison has been a sort of philosopher's stone, sought after by doctors and men of science along many lines of investigation.
What has become of the classical slime I cannot tell, but it is a fact that the skin of a modern snake is always delightfully dry and clean, and as smooth to the touch as velvet.
I have never met a native who knew that a venomous snake could be distinguished by its fangs, except a few doctors and educated men who have imbibed western science.
Scientific men aver that a snake has no ears and cannot possibly hear the strains of the pipe, but that sort of science simply spoils a picturesque subject like the snake-charmer.
The dramatic effect of the whole is enhanced when one of them allows a huge python, a snake of the Boa constrictor tribe, which kills its prey by crushing it, to wind its hideous, speckled coils round his body.
Even a trodden worm will turn, and a snakehas as much spirit as a worm.
Some of them are drastic in their effects, and so it too often proves that the poor man's time has indeed come, for though he might survive the snake he succumbs to the cure.
Beharilal proceeded to business with a directness foreign to his habit, looking over his shoulder at intervals lest a snake might be silently approaching.
The next time that Man came to bathe in the pond, the Frog bit him under the water, while the Snake swam on the top.
Illustration] The Wise Old Shepherd ONCE upon a time, a snake went out of his hole to take an airing.
Here is my son, and here, as you see, is a Snake coiled round his neck.
Of course," grumbled the Frog, "the Snake King sides with the Snake.
Illustration] The Frog and the Snake A FROG and a Snake had a quarrel as to which could give the more deadly bite.
The Snake bit him under the water, while the Frog floated on the top.
So the courtiers did nothing, but the young Prince obeyed his father, and killed the Snake with his stick.
His dam Spiletta was by Regulus, son of the Godolphin Barb, from Mother Western, by a son of Snake from a mare by Old Montague out of a mare by Hautboy, from a daughter of Brimmer and a mare whose pedigree was unknown.
I stood there waiting, suffering agonies as I saw him struggle on, now going down, now fighting his way up, so that his course was like that of a snake across a dusty road, such as I had many a time seen down in the country.
There was a snake at the Zoo once thought differently," said Gunson, laughing.
Are the snakes here as deadly in their poison as the rattle-snake of America?
This snake has been known to dart at a man on horseback, and with such force as to overshoot his aim.
The most formidable is the cobra capella (not the same as the Indian snakeof the same name).
Yes, in his provident mercy God has been pleased to furnish remedies at hand, and where the snake exists the remedy is to be found.
It stood on the ridge which divides the waters of Snake and Lick creeks, the former emptying into the Tennessee just north of Pittsburg landing, and the latter south.
Early at night the division of Lew Wallace arrived from the other side of Snake Creek, not having fired a shot.
I had constant communication with all parts of the army, and on the 9th McPherson's head of column entered and passed through Snake Creek, perfectly undefended, and accomplished a complete surprise to the enemy.
The position of our troops made a continuous line from Lick Creek on the left to Owl Creek, a branch of Snake Creek, on the right, facing nearly south and possibly a little west.
With the single exception of a few minutes after the capture of Prentiss, a continuous and unbroken line was maintained all day from Snake Creek or its tributaries on the right to Lick Creek or the Tennessee on the left above Pittsburg.
Between the two points a bridge had been built across Snake Creek by our troops, at which Wallace's command had assisted, expressly to enable the troops at the two places to support each other in case of need.
That night I received further notice from McPherson that he had found Resaca too strong for a surprise; that in consequence he had fallen back three miles to the month of Snake Creek Gap, and was there fortified.
He also told me that on his way up from Savannah that morning he had stopped at Crump's Landing, and had ordered Lew Wallace's division to cross over Snake Creek, so as to come up on my right, telling me to look out for him.
Lew Wallace's division remained on the north side of Snake Creek, on a road leading from Savannah or Cramp's Landing to Purdy.
McPherson was therefore sent around by the right, to come out by the way of Snake Creek Gap into the rear of the enemy.
The right of my line rested near the bank of Snake Creek, a short distance above the bridge which had been built by the troops for the purpose of connecting Crump's landing and Pittsburg landing.
You are aware that this species of snake has at least three names in England--the viper, adder, and hagworm.
An extraordinary narrative appeared lately in the 'Kendal Mercury,' of a snake crossing Connistone Lake, which is at least half a mile wide.
But Hercules was no whit disheartened, and squeezed the great snake so tightly that he soon began to hiss with pain.
The lion and the goat were asleep; the snake was broad awake, and kept staring around him with a great pair of fiery eyes.
This expression, which seemed to indicate that the sovereign was already deposed, made the latter turn as if a snake had stung him.
Before the snake the lion was cowed, and slunk away, trying to act the fox.
One of these two actors does not belong to the Black Snake clan, but to that of the Crow.
To choose a notable example, this is what has happened to thesnake Wollunqua.
Thus in the Mount Gambier tribe, the men whose totem is a certain non-poisonous snake must not merely refrain from eating the flesh of this snake; that of seals, eels, etc.
The Crow people are also convinced that the Snake people have a mythical serpent as ancestor, and that they owe special virtues and marvellous powers to this origin.
A snake totem has its centre at a place where there is a water-hole.
By a wholly similar process, the Dieri think that they assure the reproduction of two of their totems, the carpet snake and the woma snake (the ordinary snake).
Among the Warramunga there is one totem which is particularly venerated, this is the snake called Wollunqua; its name is taboo.
Bourke, The Snake Dance of the Moquis of Arizona, p.
Among the Urabunna, there is one clan whose totem is a variety of snake called wadnungadni.
The natives of Cape Bedford (North Queensland) believe that the child, at the moment of entering the body of its mother, is a curlew if it is a girl, or a snake if it is a boy.
In this capacity, they were charged with making a sort of mound in advance out of wet sand, upon which a design is marked with red down which represents the snake Wollunqua.
The natives represent it as a colossal snake whose length is such that when it rises on its tail its head is lost in the clouds.
This is the case notably with the ceremonies which the Warramunga celebrate in honour of the snake Wollunqua.
One of the most important religious ceremonies among the Warramunga is the one concerning the snake Wollunqua.
I understand, quite, what is meant--only to me a live snake is much more interesting than a live man or woman, and a stuffed one almost more repugnant than a stuffed man or woman would be.
The thing is not the worse because it is thus transported to another spot on earth; and the same snake that in captivity eats but once in a month or so, were it at liberty, would have a much better appetite.
She glides through the crowd, like a snake through the grass.
Nature has put a bell on the neck of the Minotaur, as on the tail of that frightful snake which is the terror of travelers.
He told me that he had had a dream in which a forked-tongued snake had been trying to kill him.
But the most peculiar tenet of their faith was that their members were not counted perfect until they could pick up a snake without injury.
But perhaps the gentleman had eaten river-snails with nutmeg or taken a bath in snake skins and stags-antlers?
First he attributed the noises to a fluttering in his ears, to the sighing of the night-wind or to the flight of some snake or lizard through the nettles.
At last Alexander gave her an emetic and then slipped into the basin into which she was vomiting a snake resembling as closely as possible that which she thought she had swallowed.
Not only was it efficacious, then, if taken while the opium was still in the stomach but, just as with Fontana's caustic potash and the snake venom, it followed the opium into the tissues and at least blunted its action.
For many other poisons beside snakevenom there have been announced supposed antidotes of all kinds.
In older times a dead snake wrapped around the neck was said to be an excellent remedy for goiter and especially those cases of goiter that caused symptoms of fright and nervousness.
Hippocrates felt quite sure that an external application of snake skin was a cure for all forms of that chronic skin manifestation, lichen.
Stories of snake {161} fascination are usually told as if the eye of the snake attracted the bird, who thereupon proceeded to approach the snake.
Headaches were cured by wrapping a dead snake around the head, or by the touch of a snake's skin, and sore throat by wearing a snake's skin around the throat at night.
Fontana, toward the end of the eighteenth century, was sure that he had discovered in caustic potash an absolute specific for snake poisoning.
He had had a series of cases, and felt that he had actually observed this substance following the snake poison into the system and neutralizing it.
When we were skinning the snake Bill remarked, "that he thought the fur rather light on the varmint, but it was a pretty cuss.
Now, the facts are, one weasel or snake will destroy more rabbits or birds and birds' eggs than a dozen foxes.
Resident along the Snake River; large nesting colonies are to be found in Bear Lake County.
Two specimens are in the State Game Department's mounted collection from the Snake River, probably from near Payette, Payette County.
Common in the winter, and possibly breeds along the Snake River.
The Game Department collection has two mounted skins from "along the Snake River.
Resident in the winter in the larger lakes, and transient along the Snake River.
This gave rise to suspicions; and the spring was found to have been poisoned with the venom of a snake or some plant.
North Wind now goes forward but Black Eagle, his father, follows the trail of snakewhich shoots from the dark.
I knew the snake well, for we often found them in the Sierra de Espinhaco, and some two or three of the slaves had lost their lives by their bite, which was so fatal, that they died in less than five minutes afterwards.
