121- Poison

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The most deadly poisonous snake in the world as Raul Dahl tells it in his terrifying story poison Listen, it's an awful good story, but to get the point you got to understand about two things.

What kind of a guy Harry Pope was and what kind of a snake a crate is? First, the crate. You spell up K-R-A-I-T. They're in India, the crates are little snakes, sometimes not more than three or four inches long.

You have to look real careful if you're going to see one at all, really almost like a worm. Except that it's the most poisonous snake in the world. It can bite faster than a bumblebee and when it does you go off like a firecracker, Swell up like a hot water bottle and in fly the angels.

Great, tiny little snake. Now about Harry, Harry Pope. Funny guy. He had it in for anybody who wasn't American, who didn't speak his language. He called him foreigners and he called him that army word, gook.

Didn't matter if they were French, Italian or Japanese, gook, foreigner, he'd say. It's kind of buggy on the subject. Funny guy. Well, Harry and me, we got sent out to Bombay in this construction job, and that's where the trouble started.