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NATURAI. HISTORY 
HORNED VIPER. 
The Horned Viper is a very particular 
animal, of the asp kind. It is peculiarly 
harmless in its nature, and in Egypt it is 
nearly domesticated. It sometimes, when 
families arc partaking of food, enters their 
houses, picks up the crumbs from under their 
tables, and then quietly retires, without 
doing the least possible injury to the inhabit- 
ants. 
