Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 633
helpless young, in spite of the Probably our snakes depend more upon catchinmice than upon any other resource for their dailfood, and they hunt for them incessantly. Mostthe mice have the bad habit of being abroad main!at night; so have the snakes; and the mice thuencounter more foes, and fall an… … > A FIGHT \VI frantic fighting of the father, and the stout attemptsof the mother to drag her little ones away intosafety. A gentleman in Illinois once saw a garter-snake pass rapidly by with a young meadow-mousein its mouth. Presently, an old meadow-mousecame out of the tall grass in pursuit of…
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