The story happened in the first world war ii before the outbreak of the British colonial India. A British colonial officials and his wife is a big Mrs Mercedes in the party, some celebrities' gentleman dignitaries were invited to gathered. The party in the family dining room, restaurant capacious marble floor not spread carpet, the bare, wide Chuan roof of the glass door to the balcony.
The party is a warm, silk face over a singular dasey expression, her eyes looking at the front, straight face muscle in slightly convulsions. She stood on a chair in the back of the Indian man made a gesture with his, whispered, his wild-eyed, quickly left the restaurant.
All the guests, in addition to a American naturalist outside, who also didn't pay attention to all of this, also did not see the man a bowl of milk on the balcony of with the door open. The americans suddenly realize, in India, milk in a bowl means only-leads the snake the bait. He realized that there must be a cobra in the room article. He looked up at the roof Chuan wood, look around the corner of the room, the cobra easy to haunt of the snake is no shadow. Heavens! The snake was in the table below. His first reaction was to jump back and warn the others. But he knows the commotion would make cobra frightened bite. So, he thought quickly, with regal tone say: "I want to see you, I count to 300 self-control, this to 5 minutes of your time, you who also do not move, otherwise, fined 50 rupees. Ready!"
He count, dozens of men like carved motionless, he counted as "1, 2, 3...... 200......" At this time, he saw the cobra in the corner, and that is toward the bowl of milk to climb. He stood up and went over to the balcony door shut. At this time, indoor sounded a screaming, each have all saw that is immersed in a milk. He smile and filled with admiration asked dasey silk: "how do you find the house has the cobra?" Dasey silk smile replied: "because it was crawling across my foot."
Dasey silk and naturalist's calm, composed, stop a snake bite tragedy happened.