Note 15 — HOW THE RATTLESNAKES CAME TO BE WHAT THEY ARE
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It is impossible to translate this exclamation, as it is probably archaic, and it is certainly the intention that its meaning shall not be plain. Judging from its etymology, I should think that its meaning might be:
“Oh, alas! our little maiden! Oh, alas! our little maiden! Ala-a-a-a-a-s!” Back