Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 126
old cock, andhatched by a reptile. In general shape, this fabu-lous animal was like a chameleon; but it had a head to lure any animal to destruction by the fascinationof its glittering eye. This idea survives even to thisday. People who believed that the really ratherdull eye of the black-snake, or… … THE SNAKE AND THE HUMMING-BIRD. and eight feet like a cock, and short wings on itsshoulders. Its very presence was fatal to all otheranimals, including man; its breath poisoned theair, and its glance was death. Afterward, as peoplebegan to doubt some things that these old poetstold them, they took…
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