Show GOPHER SNAKE IS CLEVER I 1 simple but effective way in which he captures his prey it has long been a question in our minds as to how the gopher ana inako caught the gophers on n which he lives and today to day mr IA C heitzer told a representative ot of the advance how bow it was wail done having baying just witnessed a catch e a tell mr snake colled coiled his big tall tail ver over a the gopher hole setting a snare for to him film when the gopher had bad crawled out of the hole bole sufficiently to the snakes tall to lie be drawn about the body ot of the e gopher the coll coil was wa fastened about mr gopher as quick as laflash a flash it was gradually drawn tighter and tighter until the gopher fell over dead the lite life having been completely squeezed ad out ot of him after the gopher Is dead the snake swallows him whole and it Is not an unusual thing to find one ot of these snakes with a till number to bar ot of gophers in him the gopher Is a groat great fighter and if 1 he was as not ought caught in a snare as the one m mentioned C n he bo would doubtless as malts make a hard tight light for or life even with a snake tulare advance |