Boy life on the prairie . MASSASAUGA A COLD, coiled line of mottled lead,He wakes where grazing cattle treadAnd lifts a fanged and spiteful touch is deadly, and his eyesAre hot with hatred and waits and watches where he lies. His hate is turned toward everything; He is the undisputed king Of every path and meadow spring. His venomed head is poised to smite All passing feet — light Is not swifter than his bite. His touch is deadly, and his eyesAre hot with hatred and waits and watches where he 315 CHAPTER XXI THE TERROR OF THE RATTLESNAKE This new p
Boy life on the prairie . MASSASAUGA A COLD, coiled line of mottled lead,He wakes where grazing cattle treadAnd lifts a fanged and spiteful touch is deadly, and his eyesAre hot with hatred and waits and watches where he lies. His hate is turned toward everything; He is the undisputed king Of every path and meadow spring. His venomed head is poised to smite All passing feet — light Is not swifter than his bite. His touch is deadly, and his eyesAre hot with hatred and waits and watches where he 315 CHAPTER XXI THE TERROR OF THE RATTLESNAKE This new pasture ground was filled with a day passed that the boys did not kill one ormore with their whips, and several of the cattle werebadly bitten during the first week. The bovs wereheedful where they set their feet, and never lay down inthe grass without a glance at the ground around seemed to know almost by instinct the kind ofherbage in which the reptiles were likely to be found. Tales of their deadly fangs were not so common asone might suppose, but one or two had made a profoundimpression upon Lincoln. One was the minute accountof a boy who had been bitten while out after the cowsand who had run all the way home, heating his blood toboiling-point, and diffusing the virus through every the doctor could be brought, the wounded onewas delirious with pain and fear, and died as the sunwent down. Whiskey was supposed to be a sure cure if the \ictimcould be made drunk at once, and there were a g
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