I've seen rattlers strike without rattling; and moccasins are ugly brutes that won't get out of the way for you and that give no warning when they strike; and all quail hunters in the flat-woods know how their pointers and setters are killed, and every farmer knows that the best watchmen he can have is a flock of guinea-fowl or turkeys or a few hogs loose.

The _fact_ is that deadly snakes are not rare in many localities; the _wonder_ is that scarcely a death is reported in a year.

How many niggers die, I don't know; but I know enough, when I'm in the woods or fields, to look every time before I put my foot upon the ground." "How can you see in the jungle ?" "You've _got_ to see.

Besides, rattlers are on the edge of thickets, not inside.

They've got to have an open space to strike the small furry creatures which they live on.