The three children are each given jobs in the Reptile Room: Violet is given the job of inventing traps for new snakes found in Peru, Klaus is told to read books on snakes to help advise Uncle Monty and Sunny’s job is to bite ropes into usable pieces. The snake’s name is a misnomer since it is harmless Monty intends to use it to play a practical joke on the Herpetologist Society in revenge for them ridiculing his name, Montgomery Montgomery. They meet The Incredibly Deadly Viper, which Monty has only recently discovered. The children are fascinated by the many snakes in the Reptile Room, a giant hall in which Monty’s reptile collection is stored. He says that his old assistant, Gustav, had suddenly and unexpectedly resigned. Monty tells the children that they will be going on an expedition to Peru, once his new assistant, Stephano, arrives. Each of the children can have their own room. He is much of a more friendly man rather than Count Olaf and gives the children free rein in the house. He invites the children in for coconut cream cake (or in Sunny’s case, a carrot). Montgomery, or “Uncle Monty” as he prefers to be called, is a short, chubby man with a round red face. Montgomery is the Baudelaires’ “late father’s cousin’s wife’s brother”. Montgomery Montgomery, who lives on Lousy Lane, in an area that smells like horseradish. After being taken away from their horrible guardian Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire children are taken by Mr.
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