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(1880) Author: Albert Alberg - Tema: Fables
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200 J 22 FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.

chose, and one place was as good as another
for me; so in I coiled myself, to their great
satisfaction. They carried me away in the jar,
suspended on a long beam; but it must have
been a tough and heavy job, for I felt myself
gently swinging to and fro.

"’ What if we should place the jar in the
stream,’ said the one who was more of a rogue
than the other. ’ He maybe quietly carried out
to sea. This river is holy water, and he might
be both pleased and honoured to travel that
way to his Egyptian ancestors, now in the
snakes’ pandemonium.’

" ’ Say rather he might be picked up by the
crew of some English vessel, and carried to
England; that has happened before,’ said the
other.

"To England ! I wondered; was not England
in India, since Englishmen lived there ? You
know that no snakes ever came from England
to India, so that I could not be expected to
know. I felt my prison dangling backwards
and forwards, so I understood they were tired
of their burden, and wondered what the rascals
would do with me. As bad luck would have it,
we met an Anglo-Indian, and they put down

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