... back into the booth. The snakes sometimes run to the crowd, a ticklish affair for those jammed upon the very brink of the precipice. In case they run, the three official gatherers snatch them up without ado; but if they coil and show fight these antelope... History of Arizona - Stran 175avtor: Thomas Edwin Farish - 1918Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| 1893 - 326 strani
...glide away, and then seize them with the rapidity of lightning. Frequently these gatherers have 5 or 6 snakes in their hands at once. The reptiles are as...snakes into a horrid heap of threatening heads and bnzzing tails. I have seen that hillock of rattlesnakes a foot high and 4 feet across. For a moment... | |
| Charles Fletcher Lummis - 1892 - 296 strani
...without ado : but if they coil and show fight, these Antelope-men tickle them with the snake-whips until they uncoil and try to glide away, and then...deadly as ever — not one has had its fangs extracted ! In the 1891 dance over one hundred snakes were used. Of these about sixty-five were rattlesnakes.... | |
| Mary Mapes Dodge - 1892 - 500 strani
...iwza S- .«». O'O _~ •ti&. so 'j&ith rapidity of lightning. Frequently these gatherers have rive or six snakes in their hands at once. The reptiles...deadly as ever — not one has had its fangs extracted ! In the 1891 dance, over one hundred snakes were used. Of these about sixty-five u ere rattlesnakes.... | |
| Thomas Donaldson - 1893 - 332 strani
...glide away, and then seize them with the rapiditv of lightning. Frequently these gatherers have 5 or 6 snakes in their hands at once. The reptiles are as deadly as ever ; not one has bad its fangs extracted. * * * At last all rush together at the foot of the dance rock and throw all... | |
| Charles Fletcher Lummis - 1925 - 684 strani
...up without ado; but if they coil and show fight, these Antelope men tickle them with the snake-whips until they uncoil and try to glide away, and then...deadly as ever; not one has had its fangs extracted. 1 I never knew one of them to be seriously affected by a rattlesnake's bite. They pay no attention... | |
| Charles Fletcher Lummis - 1925 - 678 strani
...up without ado; but if they coil and show fight, these Antelope men tickle them with the snake-whips until they uncoil and try to glide away, and then...reptiles are as deadly as ever; not one has had its fangs extracted.1 I never knew one of them to be seriously affected by a rattlesnake's bite. They pay no... | |
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