1 He was barefooted, and the snake bit him right on the heel.
2 But de trouble all done ef de snake bite me while I's a tryin him.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainContextHighlight In CHAPTER XXXVIII. 3 No, there warn't no real scarcity of snakes about the house for a considerable spell.
4 There was pap looking wild, and skipping around every which way and yelling about snakes.
5 She disturbed the old man so that he said he could most wish there hadn't ever been no snakes created.
6 Jim told me to chop off the snake's head and throw it away, and then skin the body and roast a piece of it.
7 That all comes of my being such a fool as to not remember that wherever you leave a dead snake its mate always comes there and curls around it.
8 Well, by night I forgot all about the snake, and when Jim flung himself down on the blanket while I struck a light the snake's mate was there, and bit him.
9 About this time I mighty near stepped on a good-sized snake, and it went sliding off through the grass and flowers, and I after it, trying to get a shot at it.
10 Then I slid out quiet and throwed the snakes clear away amongst the bushes; for I warn't going to let Jim find out it was all my fault, not if I could help it.
11 We got a licking every time one of our snakes come in her way, and she allowed these lickings warn't nothing to what she would do if we ever loaded up the place again with them.
12 His foot swelled up pretty big, and so did his leg; but by and by the drunk begun to come, and so I judged he was all right; but I'd druther been bit with a snake than pap's whisky.
13 Why, after every last snake had been gone clear out of the house for as much as a week Aunt Sally warn't over it yet; she warn't near over it; when she was setting thinking about something you could touch her on the back of her neck with a feather and she would jump right out of her stockings.