Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1891 — Agassiz’s Snakes. [ARTICLE]

Agassiz’s Snakes.

That “famous naturalist missed one morning three snakes he had brought home the night before. On searching high and low he found two, but one was still missing. Mrs. Agassiz (who was dressing), in putting on her boots, found it coiled inside her boot. Her screams of surprise brought Agassiz, who exclaimed: ■‘•Oh, Lizzie, how terreeble it might have been!” “What!” said his wife,- “are they poisonous?” “Oh, yes, the mostpoisonous little serpents you cat* think—so rare—and you might have crushed the nice little thing.

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