Summary

As Chapter 10 begins, winter has been lingering and the workers think the long winter is due to cutting down all the trees. However, when Campbell kills a rattlesnake, they know spring has come. Serena wants the workers to put all dead snakes in an applecart. The workers speculate on what she wants them for. Several weeks later, Serena takes the eagle out to the worksite with her and it catches a snake, revealing she’s been training it to hunt snakes. Later in the month, the eagle drops a snake near McIntyre and he faints. Snipes comments that the eagle is disturbing the natural order of things and later points out the eagle is from Mongolia. Stewart takes McIntyre to see Doctor Cheney. The men continue on to talk about Serena training the eagle and Ross says he would no more tangle...