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Rh And the report getting about, my door was besieged of a morning with a crowd of youngsters, leading by pieces of string or carrying in their arms miserable dogs, and still more miserable cats, that they were quite ready to sacrifice for a small coin.

I thus had no difficulty in procuring subjects to practice upon.

Every day saw dead bodies carried from the laboratory, or the small room I had rented near it, and in which my wretched victims awaited their turn, or passed their last moments.

I worked with enthusiasm for about a month, and then, to my great delight, discovered what I was in search of.

Opening the door one morning as I was going for a walk, I found standing outside a dog that had been sent away for dead a week before.

It astonished me.

I took him inside and examined him.

Yes! there could be no doubt of it, the marks of the snake's fangs were still on his leg.

Here at last was a chance to make a name.

After experimenting some time on my animals, I was convinced the antidote was reliable.

The quantity of antidote being proportioned to the strength of each animal, I found, by