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If you cannot, they are apt, like needles, to make voyages about among the muscles, and reappear at some unexpected spot, causing serious harm. Of all the vegetable pests of the forest, none, not even the croc-chien, is so ugly a neighbour as certain varieties of black Roseau.
'Take care of the Croc-chien! shouts your companion: and you are aware of, not a foot from your face, a long, green, curved whip, armed with pairs of barbs some four inches apart; and are aware also, at the same moment, that another has seized you by the arm, another by the knees, and that you must back out, unless you are willing to part with your clothes first, and your flesh afterwards.
But that he came up past that fort, through the then primeval forest, tradition reports; and tells, too, how the prickly climbing palm, the Croc-chien, or Hook-dog, pest of the forests, got its present name upon that memorable day.
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