Asked whether anyone has died of snakebites in the area, villagers grudgingly admit that it does happen -- but, they add hastily, only as a result of attacks by nonresident cobras, or by other snakes -- vipers or kraits, perhaps.
He played his last game at age 69——albeit under a one-game contract——for the International Hockey League's Detroit Vipers in 1997.
Why have you hatched these vipers, which, when they shall have grown, will surely inflict injury on all of us, beginning with yourself?
