Meet the slow worm slithering across the garden like a tiny liquid shadow. A legless lizard, experts say, that somehow manages to fool everyone. Kids scream, gardeners blink, and people step over it ...

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IT is commonly believed that all creatures are subject to the destructive propensities of snake venom. I have, however, been able to show that two or three species, at any rate, in the animal kingdom ...