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is not the fact of Jim's being bitten by this ven- 

 omous reptile, if he was really bitten, but that when 

 the snake wrapped around his arm and he grasped 



HANDCUFFED BY A SNAKE 



it by the neck it had sufficient strength to pull it- 

 self loose from his hand, which fact caused the 

 accident. I know Jim, and he is a powerful young 

 backwoodsman, with muscles of iron, and even 



