| Show hair snakes agai aadu 11 we mentioned yesterday the fact of a water snake having been found to in water drawn from the city mains our oar reportorial jal curiosity was considerably sharpened abed by the incident we were set antly cogitating as to the nature and habits of the curious little creature and also as to the result of acci dentally his snakes bip ship in a draught of city t reek creek water so 80 meeting one of 0 our local students of a science len 0 we e plied lied our questions and gained in the e to following lowing interesting items the e a so 0 ca called ed hau hair snake la Is no snake inake at all it to is more appropriately called the hair worm out tta its professional title is gordies aticus itis I 1 C is in i n fact a worm living jiving during the early part of its existence as a parasite in the intestines of certain insects especially locusts and as it does dees closely coiled within the body of its ita host it sometimes grows to a considerable length at maturity it escapee and seeks the water there to dep deposits obits its eggs here we frequently meet with it actively wiggling about to in shape color and size resembling an animated hair and hence its name and though erroneous notion that teat a horse hair it if placed in the wa water ter will be trans transformed tomed into a hair worm but many a believer in the superstitions superstitious idea will tell you that he has done it so no such a transformation can be effected A hate hair Is a hair and a worm a worm and aad a creators power is demanded to form one from froin the elements of the other it you throw a handful of hairs into a ditch however ho weve r yon IOU may fled flad hair worms og amongst thew them these creatures seek such mat ted adf 0 tangled places placed in watch to lay jay t their be I 1 r e eggs g 0 make your t in raiment a scientific that is lo in a s a ble way carefully count the number of hairs you place in the water and you way may gad find half a dozen aamir snakes mem soon after count agabo anti ami aw L it yon have not the ut of haina intact and uninjured or place the hairs in a vessel of water instead of a ditch d and though the hairs stay there till they rot no snakes or worms will be seen As retards regards the possibility of lowing one while drinking water well better not do such a thing as a rule is not gooce as a beverage bever agre but bat if you did clid swallow one is would be very uncomfortable for the worm that is all the harm barm that would be likely to follow unless the drinker knew what he had bad done then perhaps the usual effect of an emetic would be produced |
