Our reptiles and batrachians; a plain and easy account of the lizards, snakes, newts, toads, frogs and tortoises indigenous to Great Britain . 46 THE COMMON (Tropidonotus Matrix. Dum. & Bibr.)A mass of Snakes eggs from a dunghill. Everybody involuntarily shudders at the name of asnake. Very few possess courage enough to attemptstaring one out of countenance, or staying to countthe number of scales on its head. Fancy oneselfdeeply intent, with nose unusually low, seeking theruddy wild strawberry on a sunny hedge-bank, andeven whilst smacking the lips with the relish of the

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