The rest had flown away, and to follow them would have been useless.
"Well, four are all right!" cried Roger, and was about to rush forward to pick up the grouse when of a sudden Dave yelled to him to stop.
"What's the matter ?" asked the senator's son.
"A snake!" screamed Phil.

And as he spoke all in the party saw what Dave had first discovered.

A rattlesnake had appeared from a hole in a tree, close to where the dead grouse lay!.