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Harikesh Bal
When Bal looked down he found that the boys A little later a thick snake came out of another were hitting a snake with stick
hole. The boys again shouted Oh ! It is the snake IMB Web
that is Blacky
No ! Why kill it. It Kill, kill! It is
Another Blacky a black cobra.
is Dumuhi*. It does
has come. Kill Very poisonous.
not bite. Leave it.
it! Kill! Its bite causes
Let it go. instant death
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They cut the snake to pieces.
Is it not a snake ?
It is a snake but not poisonous. It is harm- less. It neither hisses nor bites. No need to be afraid of it.
From the tree, Bal was watching all this. His fists, tight in anger, relaxed. He was lost in his thoughts
Do people kill only that which
Does nobody kill is poisonous that which has no and angry?
poison and does
not bite.....?
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The old man lifted the Dumuhi and left it near a distant drain.
# A non-poisonous snake whose tail also looks like its head.
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