[Illustration: SNAKE.

Yes, that particular kind called the snake eater.

Why is it called the snake eater?

or I'm a dead man!" Tom caught the arm, thrust his hand up the sleeve, and seemed to snatch out the snake, and hurl it back into the river.

"I never saw no snake!" cried he.

Sun: a snake falling back to the bank of a stream, a dragonfly in its mouth, dazzling, iridescent.

A snake, three feet long, was winding along the opposite bank, unhurried, almost casual.

A dark snake, unremarkable.

The snake caught the dragonfly in midair without coiling.

It was as though the universe had stopped, allowed the snake to strike, and then started again for everyone else.

FAUST Snake!

Her third son had died of snake-bite.

The goddess said, "My child, a snake will come to bite your husband: give it milk to drink.

The mother took out the bodice, but instead of a snake a garland lay inside, and the mother put it round her little daughter's neck.

His sympathies were particularly excited by the number of poor people who died from snake bites and from the bites of wild animals, without medical attention.

" THE FOX AND THE SNAKE A Snake, in crossing a river, was carried away by the current, but managed to wriggle on to a bundle of thorns which was floating by, and was thus carried at a great rate down-stream.

" THE FOX AND THE SNAKE A Snake, in crossing a river, was carried away by the current, but managed to wriggle on to a bundle of thorns which was floating by, and was thus carried at a great rate down-stream.

"Which, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along"POPE.

As I was walking in the road at noon-day, my attention was drawn to the fence by the fluttering and hopping of a robin red-breast, and a cat-bird, which, upon my approach, flew up, and perched on a sapling two or three rods distant; at this instant a large black snake reared his head from the ground near the fence.

All that was wanting for the snake to secure the victims seemed to be, that the birds should pass near his head, which they would probably have soon done, but at this moment a wagon drove up and stopped.

This frightened the snake, and it crawled across the fence into the grass: notwithstanding, the birds flew over the fence into the grass also, and appeared to be bewitched, to flutter around their charmer, and it was not until an attempt was made to kill the snake that the birds would avail themselves of their wings, and fly into a forest one hundred rods distant.

This frightened the snake, and it crawled across the fence into the grass: notwithstanding, the birds flew over the fence into the grass also, and appeared to be bewitched, to flutter around their charmer, and it was not until an attempt was made to kill the snake that the birds would avail themselves of their wings, and fly into a forest one hundred rods distant.

What this fascinating power is, whether it be the look or effluvium, or the singing by the vibration of the tail of the snake, or anything else, I will not attempt to determinepossibly this power may be owing to different causes in different kinds of snakes.

But so far as the black snake is concerned, it seems to be nothing more than an enticement or allurement with which the snake is endowed to procure his fowl.

But so far as the black snake is concerned, it seems to be nothing more than an enticement or allurement with which the snake is endowed to procure his fowl.