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Show The Sait Lake Tribune, Saturday, November 15, 19C9 By Chester Gould Dick Tracy JW UK fciarwi Have a Question? Ask Andy i 9t Boa, Rattler Bear Live Young, Then Leave Em a Andy set cornel Jan lqHayden, aw Booh EncvCooedia 1o II of National City Ca if , for her question World What PS?" of snakes Lind of the snakes that live In North Carolina lay eggs. In fact, throughout the world the snakes outnumber those that give birth to live babies. However, no member of the snake world can be Colied a good mother. The eggs are almost always deserted and so are egg-layin- g new-bor- snakes. boa constric- tors and the deadly rattlers bear lie babies. And the mothers promptly desert the little ones to fend for them-seleMost other snakes lay s. eggs. As a rule, the mother is careful enough to hide her clutch of eggs in a rot kv crev In ' collar is the same color. Her eggs hatch in about two months. Have Soft Shells lay Mot The muscular ice or to bury them warm ground. Live in m Sw amps The rainbow snake and the Snake eggs hae soft shells and their shape is oal, equally rounded on both ends. Theie may be two dozen or more in the clutch. The eggs need sun and warm ground, and the hatching may take two or three months, depending upon the type of snake. The nest is not easy to find and, since many of these snakes are our allies, it is sensible tj leave the eggs where they ate so they can ha'cli and grow up. The ring necked snake is at home m the moist woods of North Carolina. This slender creature may be 18 inches long. Her back is glossy black. Her underside is a ribbon of freckled vellow and her mud snake live m the Carolina swamps. The handsome rainbow snake is striped lengthwise in black and red or orange. Her underside is a wide ribbon with a basket-wor- k pattern of black and reddish orange. This 40 inch snake lays about twenty very big eggs that hatch in about three months. The underside of the glossy black mud snake has orarge blotches. She may be more than four feet long, but she is quite harmless. As a rule, she lays her big eggs in a burrow and there may be SO of them. Carolina's grassy green snakes are gentle little creatures that dart through vines and foliage in search of grubs and caterpillais. When the little ones hatch from thir eggs they are dark brow n. swm The big. blotchy brown hog nosed snake is found in the Carohnas and almost evhen scared, erywhere else. she puffs and hisses so we (T call her the puff adder. However, she is a gentle character, though, like other snakes, she does nothing to tend her eggs. The patchy, black and white pine snake may be seven feet long. bar From She hides her Versus by Jack Wold IT'S AJCIT COWS ME AW HAPM , NOW, WW IN 1H6 WORLD WOULD WANT ID CRUSH TWAT INNOCENT UTTIE TWINS 1 just ctawuNs Aims mm& rts cm bus ihez. Friendly I V wuy not 7 ? two-inc- eggs pine forests. Thee are just a few of the egg laying snakes that you may meet in your neighborhood. It is fun to learn to and also good identify them sense. Because there are o'her snakes around that are far from friendly. Several types of water snakes live in and around the Carolina marsh lands. They are thick, dark colored snakes, sometimes five feet long. Though not poisonous, they are bad tempered and prone to bie. The young are born alive aid there may be up to a hunt rod of them in a l.tter. Th eroter snakes and ribbon sna' 's are smaller versions of the big water snakes. Deadly poisonous copand cotfonmouths perheads aho live in these areas they too bear live babies. in the southern Tumbleweeds By Tom K. Ryan AW C'MONLPURTY PLEASE?J...ITS7HE KEENES' IPEER I EVER MAPI WHY, SHUCKS rriL) REVOLOOSHUNiZE SNEAKY WEEK WHY IT MAKES SNEAKIN' 'ROUN'ONYcRTDES SORTER FUN ONCE A YEAR SAVINGS We have limited a number of 1969 Volkswagens company and executive cars at reduced prices 4 r h! ;! I f I J I, - I 1 i ? ( 1 M i ? SEE til 1 r i V f THEM TODAY AT OUR KEY I ADDRESS 3711 SO. STATE 1 if y VOmSIVAGEtl ItlTERfdOUHTAItl |