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hard suction to extract the venomous liquid, concern 

 us personally, and all that must be done instantly. 

 The longer it is put off, the more aggravated the evil. 

 Wlu'ii these precautions are taken soon enough, it 

 is seldom that the viper's bite has injurious conse- 

 quences." 



"You reassure me, Uncle. Those precautions are 

 not difficult to take, if one does not lose one's pres- 

 ence of mind." 



"Therefore it is important that we should all 

 acquire the habit of using our reason in time of 

 danger, and not let ourselves be overcome by ill- 

 regulated fears. Man master of himself is half- 

 master of danger." 



