Show the min nl tl 4 the reputed fascination tt tho ber pent a eye is the motive of t story in mr ambrose diorge s volume of tales entitled in the midst of life mr brayton wag the guest of a anond an eminent zoologist whose specialty of which ho bad a alno collection was snakes stretched epou a safa in his own room mr brayton fe lanced from the book lie was carelessly scanning while awaiting the to dinner and saw in the shadow under hia bod two small points of light about an inch apart ho gave them i 0 special thought and resumed bis reading in a few minutes he gave an tary start aud stared into the obscurity under aba bed ilia gaze disclosed the coils of a large serpent the points of lights ere its eyes but they clero flero no longer merely luminous points they looked into his own with a malign sig brayton was brau man but this an occasion when dis creti was the better part of valor lie would beat a retreat and bad ard no aal i ot to disturb the reptile but instead of the movement his will had his foot was placed in od ince of his left tho anale did cot snoie bat its eyes seemed to become larger and more lumi there were strange noises in brayton s ears ai with reluctant steps he coald not refrain from drawing bear er the bed suddenly something struck him a hard blow upon the face iio biad fallen to the floor the zoologist startle 1 by a terri flo scream from aboc rushed to IDS friend s room there lay brayton sense less As he bent over him he glanced under tho bed howgil this thing get here he exclaimed and pulling oat the oho flang it to the center of thero oai where it lay motion it v as n staffe I 1 snake its eyes were two shoo buttons |