Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 328
te. LD RATTLER was a snake, ofcourse, and he lives in the KingsRiver Canon, high up and downdeep in the mountains of Cal-ifornia. He had a hole behind andbelow a large, flat granite rock,not far from the river, and hecalled it his home; for in it heslept all night and all winter,but when the sun… … 298 A Book of Natural History the canon, the waterfalls sang in the side gulch ofRoaring River, the wind rustled in the long needlesof the yellow pines, and the birds called to their matesin the branches. But Old Rattler did not care for suchthings. He was just a snake, you know, and hisneighbors…
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