Gateway to the Classics: More Beasts for Worse Children by Hilaire Belloc
 
More Beasts for Worse Children by  Hilaire Belloc
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Python
The Welsh Mutton
The Porcupine
The Scorpion
The Crocodile
The Vulture
The Bison
The Viper
The Llama
The Chamois
The Frozen Mammoth
The Microbe

The Viper


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Yet another great truth I record in my verse,

That some Vipers are venomous, some the reverse;

A fact you may prove if you try;


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By procuring two Vipers, and letting them bite;


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With the first  you are only the worse for a fright,


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But after the second  you die.


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