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|T is a blessing that a 

 rattlesnake has to coil 

 before it can spring. 

 No one has ever writ- 

 ten up life from a rat- 

 tler's point of view, 

 although it has been unfeelingly stated 

 that fear of snakes is an inheritance 

 from our simian ancestors. 



To me, I acknowledge, a rattler is 

 just a horrid snake; so, when we were 

 told at Markham that rattlers were more 

 common than the cattle which grazed 



