The Adventure of the Speckled Band the snake wrong, a theory that the swamp adder was an artificial hybrid between the Mexican Gila monster ("Heloderma suspectum") and "Naja naja". His speculation suggests that Doyle might have hidden a double-meaning in Holmes' words. What Holmes said, reported by Watson, was "It is a swamp adder, the deadliest snake in India"; but Klauber suggested what Holmes really said was "It is a "samp-aderm", the deadliest skink in India." "Samp-aderm" can be translated "snake-Gila-monster": "Samp" is Hindi for snake, and the suffix "aderm" is derived from "heloderm", the common or vernacular name of the Gila monster generally used by
The Fat of the Land (short story) the US magazine "This Week" on 2 November 1958, with illustrations by James Williamson. This story was included as the fourth story in the first American edition of the collection "A Few Quick Ones", and the first story featured in the English edition of that collection. "The Fat of the Land" was also included in the 1982 short story collection, "Tales from the Drones Club". The Fat of the Land (short story) "The Fat of the Land" is a short story by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. The story is part of the Drones Club canon. First published in