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Show Necessary to Watch Their Peculiar Pets 'Don't leave any snuke9 about tonight to-night !" wus the closing remark of Mr. 8. O. Finch, president of the Naturalists' Nat-uralists' club, Chelseu, England, at a recent meeting of the members. Thut may sound a curious exhorta Hon, yet on this occasion It wus a oecess-ary one. The members of this club are In the hublt of taking their pets which cover u wide range to meetings held In the parlor of the Six Hells, Chelsea, and on a previous occa-ion occa-ion some one hud Inadvertently left tielilud a grass snake. . Later the landlady land-lady had discovered the reptile and was terrified. Kvery member of the flub has a particular Interest. One breeds ftsh In uu aquarium, another studies ant?, yet another is Interested In butterflies, while the president Is an authority on slugs, his specimens of which get to know him so well that they feed out of his hund. |