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THE SERPENTS.
majesty of snakes, " and I wanted to show him
who was master. He thought himself a high
priest amongst animals, I daresay, because of
his professed sanctity and white raiment; but I
soon broke the back of his pride, and making
one long obedient mass of him, I looked
straight into his dull dead eyes, and gradually
sucked him in. I took a week’s rest or so after
this hearty meal, to assimilate his holy nature to
my own, and canonize his bones," he said with
a grim smile. " I felt for once satisfied !"
Just as a mighty monarch swallowing a
bishopric, I ween, I thought to myself.
" The Hindoos have greater respect for us, I
tell you; greater even than for the
Englishman," resumed the cobra. "They offer up
prayers that we might not visit their habitation.
They cajoled me, and showed me a large
earthen jar, saying that if I would kindly
consent to be inveigled in this huge pot, they
■would carry me to a distant field of another
tribe,—how kind of them !—and then liberate
me, and no harm would come to me. When
I saw the earthen jar I knew all about it I
thought I would humour the good fellows, for
I could always make my way back again if I
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