Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 627
omebird in their front, followed by another and an-other. This was accompanied by a steady 504 THE BOYS OF THE RINCON RANCH. [April, sharp humming, which reminded Ralph of thenoise made by a typewriter when the carriageis dragged over the teeth in its rear. Peeringcautiously through a fringe of… … THE BATTLE IN THE CHAPARRAL. a small open glade not ten yards across, and inits center a huge mottled rattlesnake was coiled,ring upon ring, its wicked dark head raised sixinches and waving slowly to and fro. Its smalleyes gleamed like carbuncles, and its tail vi- elbowed, a chaparral-cock hopped…
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