These include one very formidable venomous snake, the Indian hamadryad, or giant cobra, and several non-poisonous snakes.

A tiger with his claws cut and his teeth drawnan old, grey-bearded tiger, ghastly and grim, but harmlessa cobra with the poison-bag plucked out of his jaw!

Where the Tagus joins the Hooghly I have bowled the wily googly, I have heard the howdah's howl at Hyderabad; On a rickshaw I've gone sailing, with my boomerang impaling Hooded cobras on the ice-floes off Bagdad.

At any rate, he wanted live cobras and offered a good price for them.

The other three sides of the hall, which is nearly square, are entirely devoted to the large wall cages, with fronts of stout plate glass, in single sheets, rising about 14 feet to the roof, in which the serpents are confinedthe huge pythons, anaconda, and boa constrictor, the poisonous cobras and rattlesnakes, and others well known to the visitors at these gardens.

One instant it lies passive, or slowly whirled in a careless circlethe next its noose darts out like the head of a striking cobra, the coil falls and fastens, and then it draws tighter and tighter, remorselessly as a boa constrictor, paralyzing life.

Many of the wild beasts of India, like the frightful cobra, often show great tenacity in attacking those from whom they have received injury.

It is Duryodhana, who caused venomous black cobras to bite all over the body of Bhimasena, but that slayer of foes died not.