Now his own eyes were filling with tears.
"If you were understanding the danger!" he continued desperately.
"Oh, I don't think there is much!" She tilted on the morass.
"If you killed one snake here, it's probably all there is near; and anyway, the Bird Woman says a rattlesnake is a gentleman and always gives warning before he strikes.

I don't hear any rattling.

Do you ?" "Would you be knowing it if you did ?" asked Freckles, almost impatiently.
How the laugh of the young thing rippled! "'Would I be knowing it ?'" she mocked.

"You should see the swamps of Michigan where they dump rattlers from the marl-dredgers three and four at a time!" Freckles stood astounded.

She did know.