Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life

CHAPTER I.

_SEEING A SNAKE FEED._

IN any person who for the first time witnesses a snake with prey just captured, the predominant feeling must be one of surprise at the seemingly unmanageable size of the animal it has seized; and he probably exclaims to himself, or to his companion, as we did on the occasion described in the introduction, ‘What will he do with it?’ Let us agai...