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Item: One secret cabinet in the fireplace guarded by a snake, poisonous...
...Painter Albert Pinkham Ryder. Hearing of the barber's suicide, Painter Ryder was shocked. He painted a picture of a skeleton jockey perched upon a great white race horse. The great white horse was galloping around a race track. In the corner of the picture was a snake, to symbolize temptation...
...Third Engineers are proud of their comrade." So reads a bronze tablet to be affixed to Gold Hill, which looms beside the longest dry cut in the Panama Canal. This cut, nine miles in length, was called Culebra (meaning "snake") until...
...related afterwards that the rats were led by an immense bull-rodent-his eyes (aa^ording to one gifted witness) "rea land glaring." While dogs bayed, horses bolted whinnying, and even motor cars were turned around for flight, the rats scurried on-turning the road into an undulant brown snake. At last the snake reached Epping Forest, slithered in, dissolved into rat-families which fought and clawed each other for the better nesting places. Shocked squirrels looked on, chattering .... Next morning outraged humans came with guns. Men-children helped their fathers to dispatch the rats. Dogs recovered courage and scented...
When the realization finally came that to wait was futile, Dartmouth tried valiantly to snake dance with all the abandon that the occasion required, but the spell had been broken: Their enthusiasm had been self-suppressed in its spontaneous state, in the cause of sports-manlike conduct--not to insult their opponents with a contempt for the victory. A Harvard football scalp is still a cherished prime in Hanover, though not to be valued higher than a tradition of courtesy...