Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 291
r did heonce relax his grasp of this, but quickly and patientlybegan to work his way up to the head and recom-mence his meal, and this time with better success.An hour and a quarter I watched, nor was any evidenceof poison seen, so as to reduce the powers of the bittensnake; for bitten it must have… … How Snakes Eat 263 matters so easily. The little Heterodons, and even theLacertines, often assist themselves with coils in man-aging their prey, though not themselves constrictors;but the venomous ones have not the slightest notion ofhelping themselves in this way, as if confident that intime their…
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