It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking.

One of them played with a litter of young hares; another ran a race with some young crows, which had hopped from their nest before they were really ready; a third caught up an adder from the ground and wound it around his neck and arm.

" The mother was, of course, terrified, but waited until the boy had finished his meal, when she called in the neighbours and killed the adder.

" "Send us a lock o' Lincoln's hair to poison blind adders, will you?" "Nopromised his scalp to my sweetheart to cover the rocking-chair.

When the reptile edged a little nearer to the boy than was quite equal, Douglas slapped the adder on his head with his horn spoon, saying, "Keep yer ain side

"You stinking young adders!"

Von Blitz had turned an adder loose among these men; it stung swiftly and returned to sting again.

"I might also drop a good word for the pine needle pickers among the thrushes?" volunteered the adder.

too late, that you have warmed an adder into your bosom!" "Oh, Ma, how indelicate!"

But the paroxysms did not endure long; strong volitions of revenge succeeded, and the grasps of his mind were filled, as it were, with writhing adders.