A SCIENTIST'S RISK.
♦■ Canon Tristram, who is one of the most accomplished naturalists in Europe, has run many risks during his career. Once he seized ou what he thought was a lizard in the sand, but found, to his horror, that it was a deadly horned viper. His Greek boatman would not help him, believing that it was a judgment from Heaven. Fortunately he espied an empty soda-water bottle in the sand, and forcing the creature's head into it, he uncoiled it from hia hand and got it all into the bottle, which he speedily covered. As Boon as the Oanon got baok to his vessel he filled the bottle with whisky, and the
viper haß never been out of it from tbjat day to this.
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Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 114, 9 November 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)
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126A SCIENTIST'S RISK. Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 114, 9 November 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)
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