humans' response to danger

[(John Leonard)]

Instinct is a funny thing.

About ten years ago in Norfolk, UK. I was walking along a narrow track
across some boggy heathland. I was walking briskly and was just about to
place my next footstep down when I unaccountably reared backwards, jumped
six feet in the air, turned in mid-air (somehow) and (somehow) leapt about
ten feet back up the track, landing with my heart pounding and my hair
standing on end. It was only then that I became conciously of the adder
(Britain's only poisonous snake), which I had been just about to tread on,
gliding off the path and hissing angrily.




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John Leonard (Dr),
PO Box 243,
Woden, ACT 2606

'OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds
of a world made for man?who has no gills.'
                                               Ambrose Bierce


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