If you ever open a bottle and hear a hissing sound, stand back.  This snaky letter S is from Sunday magazine, 1875.

An illustration from a 1904 issue of Metropolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "He laughed when he saw me."

An illustration from an 1890 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "It was like a black worm swaying its blind head to and fro."

This serpent wrangler is from an 1883 issue of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly magazine.

An illustration from an 1899 issue of McClure's magazine.  The caption reads: "'It's extraordinary,' Ackerly thought, as he ... listened to the spirits in the violin calling to the king cobra."

An illustration from a 1914 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "His head fell against the rose-patterned carpet of the lodging-house room.  Diana, raising her arched neck, calmly stared at something beyond the wall of the room."

An illustration from a 1914 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "As she wound her weight of muscle about his trunk, he found himself staring into her face."

An illustration from an 1898 issue of Wide World magazine.  The caption reads: "She played air after air."

Dedicated to Teresa Burritt.