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Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history (1898)

Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889, Holder, Joseph B. (Joseph Bassett), 1824-1888, Prang, Louis, 1824-1909, lithographer, Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884, Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889. Illustrated natural history, National Zoological Park (U.S.), former owner. DSI · New York : Selmar Hess · leaf 196

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tuted for the purpose of killing the fowl. It is moreover said, and truly, that a Snake, thought to have been rendered innocuous by the deprivation of its fangs, has bitten one of its masters and killed him, thus proving the imposture. Still, neither of these explanations will entirely disprove the… … instead of the fowl, and how did the juggler prevent it from using its teeth. while he was conveying it away? And, in the second instance, the detection of an impostor is by no means a proof that all who pretend to the same powers are likewise impostors. The following narrative of Mr. H. E. Reyne,…

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