"To keep peace in camp an' not let him go to pawin' 'round for real
trouble with the festive Jaybird, Enright stands in to cap the game
himse'f; an' puts it up in confab with this Todd the next day as how
he sees the rattlesnake, an' that it's mighty near bein' a whopper.
"'It's shore,' says Enright, when he an' Todd is conversin' tharon,
'the most giant serpent I ever sees without the aid of licker. An'
when he goes streakin' off into the gloom, bein' amazed an' rattled
by your cries, he leaves, so far as I'm concerned, a trail of relief
behind. You-all can gamble, I wasn't interruptin' of no sech snake,
nor makin' of no pretexts for his detainment.
"'What for was his rattles like?' says Todd; an' he gets pale at the
mere sound of Enright's talk.
"'As to them rattles,' says Enright, like he's mighty thoughtful
tryin' to recall 'em to mind, 'as to this reptile's rattles, it's
that dark that while I sees 'em I couldn't but jest. So far as I
notes anythin' they looks like a belt full of car-tridges, sorter
corrugated an' noomerous.
"Now this yere which I relates, while no doubt burnin' experiences
to Todd, is after all harmless enough. An' to people not careful
about the basis of their glee it might do some to laugh at.
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