bullsnake

Me, I never saw any rattles, but yeah, it was the exact color and pattern of a rattler, not a bullsnake.

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And shoot one last picture, before heading down to the bullsnake, and the bridge.

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Soon, we'll drop into the canyon, and sadly run over a bullsnake trying to warm itself on the road.

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Wife's face lights up when she sees who I've got coiling in my arms, and she reaches out to take the bullsnake without hesitation.

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While we talked, the bullsnake made her exit the other way.

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He touched it just the same, and the bullsnake coiled herself tighter in the crack.

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Turned out it was a bullsnake, Pituophis catenifer sayi.

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One of them remarked that it was too bad Mrs. Grouse had run back into town, and had missed seeing the bullsnake.

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So the bullsnake and I head into camp and stand around, waiting for the wife.

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Windy Bill's story of the faithful bullsnake aroused to reminiscence the grizzled stranger, who thereupon held forth as follows:

Arizona Nights Stewart Edward White 1909