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As the Manley boys and their sister sat in the car munching sandwiches, now and then Teddy would glance at his hand, which still showed the red scratch, and shake his head in wonder that such a strange mistake could have happened. It hardly seemed possible that one could imagine he had been bitten by a rattler when there was no snake within miles, for all they knew. Yet, the "whir-r-r" of that tin certainly did sound like the warning of a side-winder. And when his hand had been injured at the same time-what other conclusion could be drawn?
Of course both Roy and Teddy knew that a snake's bite would usually be nothing more than two small punctures in the flesh, yet if the hand was being withdrawn when the fangs hit it, the flesh could easily be torn.