Summary
A sun-scorched cattle baron, half-clown and half-cipher, perfects a sibilant ventriloquism that begins as barroom japery—his tongue curling into the dry whistle of a diamondback—until the jest metastasizes into survival grammar when desperados abduct the only soul who ever coaxed softness from his laconic crust. Across alkali flats and moon-silvered arroyos, the hiss becomes Morse code without wires, a tremor in the dust that steers ambush back upon its architects, turning barnyard mimicry into mythic jurisprudence.
Synopsis
A range boss learns to imitate the hiss of a rattlesnake for humorous purposes, but has occasion to employ this accomplishment with more dramatic effect when seeking to rescue the heroine from some bandits.
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