Show IS MOST VENOMOUS SNAKE of India Found In Nearly Every Part of Peninsula l I Is Death Itself ij i 9 i 1 j The most ven venomous us of snakes Is s held beld to be the of India It is about 18 Inches long and of or a gray color The creature Is death Itself and carries In Its head the secret of ot destroying life lite with the concentrated agony of ot all the poisons This snake Is tolerably common In India being found iu to nearly every ery part W of the peninsula Fortunately however for man It Is not like the cobra a house house frequenting frequenting snake for Its aggressive habits would mal make e It Indefinitely more fatal tatal to life Its dreaded relative This king of the asps does not turn to Ito escape from man as the cobra will or or flash Into concealment like the ko- ko but keeps Its path against Its human human human hu hu- hu- hu man assailant and pitting its 18 IS Inches of length against its enemy's bulk challenges and pro ol provokes es conflict con con- A stroke with a whip will cut It In two or a 3 clod of earth disable It but such Is its malignity that it will In Invite invite In- In vite ite attack by every device at Its com corn command wand mand staking its own life on the mere chance of ot its adversary coming within the little circle of ot Its power At most the radius of this circle is 12 inches Within it it at any event lies certain death and on the bare hope of hand handor or foot trespassing within its reach the throws its body into a fig fig- ot eight of coil coll Then it attracts attention attention attention at at- by rubbing its loops together which from the roughness of the scales make male a rustling hissing sound erects Its head in the center and awaits attack |