Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 496
A RATTLESNAKE COILED TO STRIKE. there was an old superstition that a rattlesnake wouldhunt the slayer of its mate. Some time after papa found another snake, close tothe porch. When it saw papa, it sprang from theground up on to the porch, an inch or so above the TAIL OF RATTLESNAKE. (Shows rattle…
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