We won't eat you.
There--go." Murmuring water drew their steps down into a shallow shaded ravine where a brown brook brawled softly over mossy stones.

Multitudes of strange, gray frogs with white spots and black eyes lined the rocky bank and leaped only at close approach.

Then Venters's eye descried a very thin, very long green snake coiled round a sapling.

They drew closer and closer till they could have touched it.

The snake had no fear and watched them with scintillating eyes.
"It's pretty," said Bess.