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More fair and just, and kindly estimation, (Despite your shots of humorous venom, poured...
...nature of those emanations is unknown. Sir William thinks that they are chemical individuals, that "their physiological activity must be prodigious, equaling or even exceeding that of snake venom. . . . Of what use is this power? Why can it so influence its fellow vegetables? In that lies the puzzle." Perhaps the emanations explain what warehousers of apples have known for a long time, "that there is a kind of communal life, a herd quality, in apples when stored together. They tend to and. indeed, they do ripen at much the same rate...
...story on p. 26 which deals with the Hopi Indians and rattlesnakes. From my experience with the great Florida diamondback rattler, timber or mountain rattlesnake, as well as with the Seminole Indians with whom I hunt, no person, white or Indian, is immune if a large rattler, with its venom sacs filled, injects this poison through its hollow fangs into your body. Personally, I do not believe the Hopi Indians are immune or have an antidote which can be successfully used after the dance, as rattlesnake venom works swiftly into the circulatory system, especially when the blood is circulating faster...
...doubted by many snake experts. Some say that the Hopi are bitten, that a few die, but that the Indians have a potent secret antidote for snakebite. Others suggest that the snakes are goaded to strike at bits of cloth during their imprisonment in the kiva, so that their venom is all discharged by the day of the dance. Still others point out that the rattlesnake is no traveler, that the Hopi gather the same snakes year after year and these snakes are really friends of the Hopi...
...fight ratification with what was left of his party. Lord Beaverbrook, the Canadian-born owner of the Daily Express, for years an advocate of Empire Free Trade, was delighted. Said the Express: "Credit goes supremely to one man, Bennett, whose sincerity and patriotism won for him the sneers and venom of a considerable section of the British press...