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Scientific American, Vol. 42, No. 4 (1880) (1880)

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e earth is com- of the most terrible poisons known. Itis used for poison. in a subtile poison which is nothing else than the venom of pletely honeycombed with its burrows. Being a nocturnal thefrog just mentioned. To obtain the poison for their animal, it is rarely seen by daylight, seldom leaving… … chievous animal, as, like the com- wanted. The venom, whichis only SPRING HAAS.—Helamys Capensis. mon hare, it is in the habit of mak- used before its solidification, keeps ing nocturnal] raids upon the corn for some time, but at length acquires fields and gardens, and escaping safely to its…

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