In the pools, too, was a species of small alligator or enormous iguana, I do not know which, that fed, Billali told me, upon the waterfowl, also large quantities of a hideous black water-snake, of which the bite is very dangerous, though not, I gathered, so deadly as a cobra's or a puff adder's.

Chunghsing Comery.-This mine is at Tsaochuang (棗莊), Shantung Province. The local is good for making coke, but not so pure as that from Kaokeng, owing to the comparatively high ash percentage.

My dear boy, if your grades don't pick up I won't bounce you on, but over my knee!

To do away a dwarf, i.e., epileptic fit or convulsion, "give to the troubled man to eat thost (dung) of a white hound, pounded to dust and mingled with meal and baked to a cake, ere the hour of the dwarfs seizure, whether by day or by night it be; …