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Melinda asked this question about Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander, #9):
Does a snake really bite Jamie in Bees or was that his imagination/bullets? Nothing else was said about a snake so I was confused!
Maria Rose If you know about snakes in that part of North Carolina-there are 37 varieties that live in that state, only 7 are venomous but those are extremely ra…moreIf you know about snakes in that part of North Carolina-there are 37 varieties that live in that state, only 7 are venomous but those are extremely rare to find or encounter. There was a reference back to the snake bite that Jamie had gotten that Roger Mac had to try to remove the poison out of Jamie's leg, which occurred in a previous book. In this book, during the fighting, Jamie vaguely remembers kicking at a snake that he thought was touching his leg, at the same time he was shot in the chest, but when Claire was examining him, she found no snake bit puncture only the wound to his kneecap, so it is possible what he thought was a snake was a branch he kicked when his kneecap was hit. He was losing blood and losing focus and was barely breathing when found.(less)
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Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
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