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Show A BOOK TO READ IS WHAT YOU NEED "We were approaching a stretch of bottomless mud flanked on each sside by high grass. Having seen how the guide, some ditance ahead of me had floundered through the slough, I chose to go through the grass, and as I did so te most dramatic moment it would be possible pos-sible to experience fell upon me or better, coiled about me, for I stepped squarely on top of a Cobras Co-bras nest. In a flassh the outraged occupant had wrapped itself around my unprotected ankle, and with its head expanded not two inches from my skin, glared with diabolical lid-less lid-less undesscribably malignant eyes straight into my very ashen countenance." count-enance." Interested? This is just one of the thrilling adventures that befell Richard Haliburton while he was vagabonding around the world. He tells of his escape from the snake, and many other of his experiences in his very exciting book, "The Royal Road to Romance." |