Note 412 — TABLE DES MATIÈRES CONTENUES DANS LE DEUXIÈME VOLUME.
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: Another time, being in the field with my companions, it chanced that an adder passed over the highway, so I, having a stick, struck her over the back, and having stunned her, I forced open her mouth with my stick, and plucked her sting out with my fingers, by which act, had not God been merciful to me, I might, by my desperateness, have brought myself to my end.