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Then the ringhals crawled out—the ugly five feet length o’ livin’ death—and there and then gorged the rat.

It did not occur to him that a man who had shot lions in the open was not likely to be afraid of an everyday ringhals—not at the time, at least.

The "ringhals" in the veldt are very deadly.

They leapt to do his bidding, and presently discovered the ringhals in its hole.

To it, or rather to her hand, was hanging a great hooded snake of the cobra variety such as the Boers call ringhals.