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Show Some Snakes M&Iigned Without a Good Reason Just because a few snakes are poisonous, poi-sonous, all snnkes have been deemed dangerous. The first Impulse on sight- j log the reptile Is to kill him or run, says Herbert C McKay, In Field and Stream. There Is no Justification of such action. ac-tion. Is the writer's opinion. He points out the black reputation of tbe spread-adder. spread-adder. By photographs of children playing with snakes, he shows the barmlessness of the more falsely libeled li-beled reptiles. As regards the so-called so-called deadly spread-adder, he says. "Not only Is the snake absolutely harmless, but It cannot he made to bltel It will coll; It will strike, and strike most viciously, but It strikes with the side of Its head, not with tbe open mouth. I have teased one of these little reptiles until It was furious, furi-ous, yet never have I been able to make it strike with the open mouth." |