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ICHNEUMONS. 



which it escapes the spring of the Snake under a due sense of danger, and the cunning with which it 

 makes its arrangements to leap upon the back and fasten its teeth in the neck of the Cobra. It is 

 this display of instinctiv a ingenuity that Lucan celebrates when he paints the Ichneumon diverting 



