So the twelve o'clock sun saw him galloping towards Norburne; and by good fortune Halsell Common lay in his road and gave him some fine leaps for Rattler.
所以十二点钟太阳看到他飞奔向诺本;幸运是,Halsell Common 挡在了他路上,为拉特勒提供了一些漂亮飞跃。
Twice each year the moccasins and rattlers move, he says, taking the same path, and back and forth between the east and west groves is a known crossing.
If time proved that the sight of a snake was a rarity, there was no help then for the conviction that the next footstep would fall on a coiled rattler.
Some FedEx delivery guys just deliver packages, but this one delivered mortal blows to a rattlesnake, a rattler that took the welcome mat a little too literally at Christie Jones's, Nebraska home.
I saw poison from the fangs of his rattlers being shipped to laboratories to make anti-venom toxin; I saw rattlesnake skins being sold at fancy prices to make women's shoes and handbags.