Hi and welcome back to Nighty Night, bedtime stories to keep you awake.

I'm your host Rabiak Jadri. In this week's tale we

revisit a story by Ambrose Bears and the protagonist learns a hard way that

there's nothing to fear but fear itself.

The man and the snake by Ambrose Beers,

Part 1. It is of veritable report and attested of so many that there be no of wise and learned

none to gain say it that ye serpent has I had the magnetic property that

who so falleth into its invasion it's drawn forwards in despite of his will and

perisheth miserable by a creature's bite.

Stretched at ease upon a sofa in a gown and slippers, Parker Brayton smiled as he read the

foregoing sentence in old

Morister's Marvels of Science.

The only marvel in the matter he said to himself is that the wise and learned in

Morister's Day should have believed such nonsense as is rejected by most of even the ignorant in hours.

A train of reflection followed. For Brayton was a man of thought and he unconsciously lowered his book without altering the direction of

his eyes. As soon as the volume had gone below the line of sight, something in an obscure

corner of the room recalled his attention to his surroundings. What he saw in the

shadow under his bed was two small points of light. Apparently about an inch

apart, they might have been reflections of the gas jet above him,

in metal nail heads.

He gave them but little thought and resumed his reading.

A moment later, something, some impulse which it did not occur to him to analyze,

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