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"Apple of Death" is what the Jungle call thorn-apple or dhatura, the readiest poison in all India. "What now?" said the panther. "Must thou and I kill each other for yonder red-eyed slayer?" "Can it speak?" said Mowgli in a whisper. "Did I do it a wrong when I threw it away? Between us two it can do no wrong, for we do not desire what men desire.
This twitching continued for several minutes, when the creature started to revolve in circles, like a Japanese dancing-mouse. Finally it became subject to spasms, and, although the professor withdrew the tube, these symptoms continued. "I was right!" he cried. "It is an especially poisonous variety of that almost unknown Oriental drug, Dhatura stramonium.
I'm not positive," he continued, "but I believe these crystals to be those of Dhatura stramonium, and, as you say speed's the thing, we'll begin by noting the effect of the stuff as a gas on that guinea-pig over there." "Have you masks?" asked Locke, with true scientific caution. "Yes on the shelf. You're keen, Quentin.
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