There was never a chance to ask the old snake about his intriguing remark.

It was what the gray old snake had expected, and he was ready.

"And you heard a big old snake crawled across Highway 82 the other day."

He wants us in the old snake's shadow, right up to station.

That worried me-the old snake was setting me up for something.

Did the old snake want me to take another oath?

Rashid looked to me as if he expected an explanation of what the old snake meant.

I suppose the old snake enjoyed smelling the blood on them.

But trouble hasn't gotten you down in years, old snake, so it shouldn't now.

An older snake may shed its skin only once or twice a year.