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when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks - “a quantity of dry sticks.” The vigorous activity of Paul’s character is observable in this comparatively trifling action [Webster and Wilkinson].
and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat - Having laid itself up among the sticks on the approach of the cold winter season, it had suddenly recovered from its torpor by the heat.
and fastened - its fangs.
on his hand - Vipers dart at their enemies sometimes several feet at a bound. They have now disappeared from Malta, owing to the change which cultivation has produced.