The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 178
hing grasshoppers; and here Imust stop a moment to tell you of the strangeway this snake has of eating. When he catchesa grasshopper or a little frog, he opens his jawsso wide that they are actually out of joint. Hav-ing taken his food into his mouth, he readjuststhe jaws, holds the insect or the… … ■ E BLACKSNAKE. low, owing to each of his scales having a littlekeel or ridge in the middle. One warm still day in April I was walkingalong the shores of a small pond, hoping I shouldsee some signs of the snakes waking from theirlong winters nap. Suddenly I stopped. Couldthose enormous gray-black…
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