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When he was gone, they all looked at one another like men awaking from a dream. Staines alone took it quite coolly. It did not surprise him in the least. He had always thought it incredible that the boa-constrictor should be larger than any sea-snake. That idea struck him as monstrous and absurd. He noted the sea-serpent in his journal, but with this doubt, "Semble more like a very large eel."
He only seems to have two enemies who can do him any damage: one of these is the boa-constrictor this snake swallows the tortoise alive, shell and all. But a boa large enough to do this is very scarce, and thus there is not much to apprehend from that quarter. The other enemy is man, who takes up the tortoise and carries him away.
"It is a wild boar," exclaimed our friend; "but I suspect a boa has got hold of him a great bore for him, I suspect." We rode to the spot whence the sound came. There, sure enough, suspended from the low branch of a tree was a huge boa-constrictor, some twenty feet long, perhaps, which had just enclosed a wild pig in its monstrous folds.
I tak shame for not minding that they are so gay tall. But did ye ever see the like o' yon rooster?" Indeed, she never had! The frightful monster, with its bob-tail and boa-constrictor neck! But she said nothing. Ben named them the Emperor and Empress. They were not to be allowed to walk with common fowls, and he soon had a large, airy house made for them.
The little wretch was so delighted with this feat, that he turned about a dozen somersaults, and then, for the amusement of the Giant and his friends, he changed the old sorceress successively into a lion, a pig, an old hen, a turtle, a kangaroo, a boa-constrictor, an ape, a lobster, a cat, a crocodile, and a crane.
In 1846 the Great Kirghiz Horde acknowledged its subjection to Russia on the farther side of the Balkash, while at the same time a fort was constructed on the lower Yaxartes. In 1847 the encroachments of Russia in Central Asia had brought her upon the borders of the important khanates of Khiva and Khokand, and, like some huge boa-constrictor, she prepared to swallow them.
"I will try and not deserve it, Mr. Soaper," was the prompt reply. "Serve 'em right," said Mr. Cibber, as soon as the door had closed upon them; "for a couple of serpents, or rather one boa-constrictor. Soaper slavers, for Snarl to crush. But we were all a little too hard on Triplet here; and, if he will accept my apology "
"Monsieur oh, monsieur, do not shut the door in the face of God like that!" said the shocked little master of the law. "Those two together it may be only for a moment." "Ah, no, my little owl, Jean Jacques will wind the boa-constrictor round his neck like a collar, all for love of those he has lost," answered the Judge with emotion; and he caught M. Fille's arm in the companionship of sorrow.
He looked round triumphantly. Mr. Chalk, sitting open-mouthed, was regarding him with the fascinated gaze of a rabbit before a boa-constrictor. Captain Bowers was listening with an appearance of interest which in more favourable circumstances would have been very flattering. "You said," cried Mrs. Chalk "you said to my husband: 'The fair Emily is yours."
Of the serpents which are dreaded not for their bite, for they have no poison-fangs but for their great strength and daring, and for the way in which they coil round their victims, crushing them to death in their terrible embrace the most dangerous are the Python of the Old World, and the Boa-constrictor of the New.
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