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Show Tongues That Kill. The tongues of some nnlmnls nro very dangerous weapons. A Hon could speedily kill n mnn by merely licking him with his tongue. The tongues of all the members of tho cnt family nro covered with curious recurving spines formed of tough cartilage. In tho common com-mon domestic cnt these spines nro very small, but nre sutllclently well developed devel-oped to give tho tonguo n feeling of roughness. In the llcrcest nnlmals, M such n.s the lion or tiger, theso spines nre frequently found projecting up for an eighth of an Inch or more with very sharp polntH or edges. While the mouth Is rclnxed the tonguo Is soft nnd smooth, hut when the nnlmal Is cxclfcd tho spines become, rigid. " |