Show 0 1 aw rv t i I 1 ir I 1 4 I 1 71 THEIR BIT 11 WITH POISONOUS VANOS was coustry carl wallow swallow M X klit kiss tested sod d 1 ila into I la roots BoU blouir zatille ir booko ear EIS S not less ban than 50 people are killed by snakes in india every eer ear they are one of the chief causes of mortality la in that country great effort efforts have bare been mabb by the BrItIsh government to destroy thorn them but with very little mccue uc cue unfortunately the aft churos I 1 TOO regard them aa as acred they consider nilder co the cobin in particular its 0 em aa bodying some sort of divinity ana it Is U customary oui tomary for them to 0 o allow these the frightful creature creatures a as pets oa on their premises offers of bounties boan tirs for serpent serpents heads laro levo boon been by the discovery discor ery ol 01 the this pursued ad by many low catle caste of of breed toe lair snake artificially to th tho 0 demand in that worm warm climate snakes jakc pru their species very fast ask and the r venom rapidly although llie the cobra Is I 1 the mott most dreaded of all the it limit and other varieties ure am hardly leo lesa deadly they swarm every where abe cobar are especially ond fond of taking up their in garden gardens and under du no cure for ft a bobro bite is known to sc science lenot although there ii is ro cool 0 I 1 evidence that the native doctor doctors to roo times rescue victims by ro which they deop facret cret dr buckland mentions that the teeth of serpents cals are not always found la to their mouth ay the herald alere 1 Is a make in africa that 11 uon as upon tho the cage of birda birdo thich t ho be purloin from the costs it ila diac liac oo 00 teeth in its it mouth but they a T lop in its it beil I 1 tiela it form for ml 11 ina in a ery cariou manner 11 7 are not riot true tooth but certain little bonee bones port parts of tho the are made to 10 serve a like ike purpose one from tho the center of each vertebra the end of these bonce bones pass through the wall of tho the stomach eto mach being cove ed dd with enamel liko like roal real teeth teem eo to that on lookin into the stomach a row raw of whit what loo look exactly liko like teeth is seen at its back part parl the egg when ri tw wallowed allowed by the make snake goes down into tho be armach to and Is t broken against the b bv the pressure proe sure of abdominal wa an wu jlee g thus broken the cOu contents teats of tho the ORR PA would bare have been tho the case if U it had been brokett broken in the mouth it is oot tot generally known that tho the remarkable ro australian mammal known ma u tho the which lay lays om and has a ducke ducks bill and webbed fret rk possesses a polon poison apparatus much like that of a enoka the ila ma male le of thia this animal hu hall a gland on the back pol poi part th thigh by m cs of a duct with a thorp tharp spur very like a cocke cocks spur T la Is pur spur ij Is pe perorated footed like the cobra cobras tooth and arill the poisonous noua secretion 0 the gland is thus transmitted into the wound made by the spur gitany if any reader of thi this article hould should ever be so 0 o unfortunate as to expert once the embrace of a boa constrictor it aa that he try to re loue himself by taking holdom bold of the creatures tail tall and unwinding it from that tha tend end it can bo be easily unwound unwound d 1 in that way bit bt otherwise it is impose abie the way to kill a nake snake is not to attempt to crush Iti head bead tb tbt i bones cf of which are very bard hard bui but to strike bo cho tall whre the spinal cord is but thinly cov rod ired by bone and suffers rowdily acl dlly from injury it I 1 la 13 the same way with noel n bet lilt hit the tall tali two or three times against any hard sub 6 and it quickly the boas ere am jt at veno venomous mou but their stags are powerful to inflict ter bertou louls w wounds and largo large specimens have been known to swallow men mea wh whole 01 C the case is related by tho the tra traveler velor Giron gil terr of a criminal in the philippine islands who bid hid from juluce in a cov cu torn orn his ills father who alono alamo knew know of hie his hiding place went sometimes to see ie him and to take him rice for food one day ho he found balstead of his son an enormous nus boa boo asleep ho lie killed it and found bis big sons body la in the snake a tio mach Eor penta sometimes swallow prey eo so much too big for their Jre power powers that they actually barst burst from repletion the no instance is recorded of a boa constrictor which cw tw allowed a poa goat tho the horns of which jaroad p broad the bally of the monitor monster and lulled him thero thera is a R tery handsome pair of bofto in the display of leathers at tit thu the SV jonal mado made out of rattle atala skins in bome parts of india the hides of serpents ere cre used for ornamental clothes on account of their uncommon beauty such garments are tire very highly valued snakes ess erga tire often eaten dr tolls tells about abo ut some that he put on the shelf of a preen green bonne house to see sea if it the sun would hatch them ono one morning so oderal deml ol 01 them were gone everybody denied touching thorn at the same timo time a certain M abs then an all inmate ot of the eursery u sery was suddenly taken al 11 A physician n was sent for and the sobbing culprit reluctantly confessed that she bid bd eaten so omo largo large sugar plums plum chich she be had found on an a shelf in the g preen grcen bou u she bad hud in fact fac t mado made a repast on oil tho the snakes eggs under the do buslon that she was robbing tho the cook cool of preserves preserve a put out to dry |