Th' shade it gives is th' coolest out here, for th' leaves turn with th' wind an' lets th' breeze through-they're hung on little stems." "How splendid!" she exclaimed.

"Oh! Look there!" she cried, pointing ahead of them.

A chaparral cock strutted from its decapitated enemy, a rattlesnake, and disappeared in the chaparral.
Hopalong laughed: "Mr.Scissors-bill Road-runner has great fun with snakes.

He runs along th' sand-an' he can run, too--an' sees a snake takin' a siesta.

Snip! goes his bill an' th' snake slides over th' Divide.