We Have No Common Vipers In The

The Head Of A Pike, Served At Supper, Is Said To Have Caused The Death From Terror Of Theodoric The Goth, Who Imagined The Fish's Features To Be Those Of Symmachus, A Man He Had Just Killed. But For This Story, We Of Today Would Have No Idea What Symmachus Looked Like.

Other Countries May Boast Of This And That, But Nobody Can Touch The United States For Poisonous Snakes. We Have About Twenty Species, Most Of Them Deadly, And Europe Has Only Five Or Six, None Of Them Much Good. We Have Fifteen Kinds Of Rattlesnakes Alone And Nobody Else Has Even One. [footnote: There Is A Species In Central And South America, But It Probably Came From Here.]

They [the Pilgrims] Believed In Freedom Of Thought For Themselves And For All Other People Who Believed Exactly As They Did.

A Few Cobras In Your Home Will Soon Clear It Of Rats And Mice. Of Course, You Will Still Have The Cobras.

Just When You're Beginning To Think Pretty Well Of People, You Run Across Somebody Who Puts Sugar On Sliced Tomatoes.