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ANIMAL CURIOSITIES 
Having done this, she completes her work 
by closing up the entrance to the cells. 
Before ending our remarks we will refer 
briefly to the doctors or apothecaries of animal 
life, among which are to be numbered the cats 
and dogs that are in the habit of eating grass 
as a medicine. It has even been stated that 
the mongoose, when bitten by a venomous 
snake, will search for and eat certain herbs 
to act as an antidote to the poison, but this 
story, it should be mentioned, is not based 
upon fact. 
