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...FOUND. - A neck Boa in Cambridge, Saturday, Nov. 26. Apply at 14 Linnaear St., No. Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 12/3/1892 | See Source »

...young man in the Jardin des Plantes asked if the boa constrictor tied himself in a knot because he wanted to remember something...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 2/11/1882 | See Source »

...away in the desolate wilds of South America, where roams the disconsolate tapir, and the melancholy hyenas come trooping home at eventide; where the kangaroo leaps in demoniac exultation, and the boa-constrictor, after coiling himself tenderly but firmly around the waist of the intruder, gazes with embarrassing familiarity into his eyes, - in this forsaken region, far from civilization, with its weary load of unrest, its perpetual strivings after the unattainable, and its ceaseless Knock at the fast-closed gate of the empyrean, and all that --. But what am I saying, or where am I? Of course - I forgot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE QUIZZICAL CLUB. | 4/5/1881 | See Source »

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