The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 179
ation,which snakes are said to cause in other creatures.Here was a snake, with neither fangs nor poison-sacs, which did not constrict, and yet I felt thathe had the power to kill me instantly. 368 STRANGE FISH AND REPTILES I have since come to the conclusion that thisreptile was the grandfather of… … THE THUNDER-AND-LIGHTNING SNAKE. they swim along, with their heads just above thesurface, these bars look like sunbeams strikingacross the back. I never had succeeded in cap-turing any but small specimens of this snake, and,as I wanted a good one, with the bright-red coloron the under side of the…
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