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THE SERPENTS.
Standing in the reptile house, on all sides
surrounded by glass cages containing snakes,
inhaling the heated air, I soon became aware
of a sweet cloying odour, which I thought I
recognised as the magnetic exhalations from
the serpents, and I felt it gradually creeping
upon my senses. I stood absorbed in
recollections of hot climates I had visited long
ago; and remembered how, during the
vicissitudes of life, I had made the acquaintance
of a native snake-charmer from Borneo, who
’ was a most pleasant and even gentlemanly
fellow, and who, though following his calling
as a professional snake-charmer, had turned a
Christian. He was a fairly well read man,
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