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I saw a snake by the roadside
and touched him with my foot

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to see if he was alive.

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He had a toad in
his jaws while he

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was preparing to swallow
with his jaws to send it

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to three times its width.

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But he relinquished his
prey in haste and fled.

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And I thought as the toad
jumped leisurely away

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with his slime covered
hindquarters glistening

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in the sun, as if I
his deliverer wish

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to interrupt his meditations
without a shriek or fainting.

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I thought what a healthy
indifference he manifested.

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Is not the broad
earth still, he said.

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