Show Sa sales aes les EDITOR or OF tue THE NEWS sir gir I 1 in the no or of nae vae tie sews news an article artice en entitled fda da snakes lay jay egg and in the last paragraph a seeming quert query or doubt doubty whether the young reptiles do take refue in the tte of the mother I 1 leeolie record very distinctly when a boy about thi thirteen or years tirs of ag age that I 1 chanced to meet with an old snake sinter aril azil oraa ome half dozen rerun unes mes on a plain bli bir tooth V plia tv 0 OS thera there was wag co no charca chine for lor ahl dod Zug jug ns and oa on my naj xi nr ar approach the small mull snakes ail all al ran ons at A time limp in quick sjon into the mouth and down the fhe be throat af the large gnp ony on which I 1 bup pota xie lie the mother they were of 0 the kila kili 1 called striped or garter barter tinak very common in the new eagland Sz states atea where this thi circum betance transpired A if RALEIGH |