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LITTLE FOLKS 
slippery fellow wriggles out of the old coat, generally turning it 
inside out in the operation, and coming out as good as new himself. 
The ringed snake— like the picture at the beginning of this 
article — is a perfectly harmless creature. He eats insects and 
reptiles, especially frogs, of which he is very fond. He is about a 
yard long. 
But here is a creature of a very different character. This 
snake, the Cobra di Capella y is one of the most deadly of his tribe. 
He is a native of Asia, and his bite is almost certain death. Yet 
the jugglers of India take them about to show, tamed, or as they 
say, charmed. They will dance, or keep time to a kind of mon- 
otonous music made by some instrument, and allow themselves to 
be twined about the charmer's neck, and carried in his pocket. 
Some people, who have seen this done, say that the snakes' poison 
fangs are pulled out. But the same serpents which have been 
