Show 0 L sz ay MAW MAK r r antoh i SNAKES SPRING SKINS 1111 hiss iss hiss swish awash h l s 8 sald bald mrs snake 1 I have a secret to tell you 1 I 1 v n going to have a now new dress yes a new spring drass I 1 I 1 lin venit had one in ever so long and its the springtime the time for ney new clot clothes bes new gowns now new fulti new lints new everything ani and i am going to entirely new clothes too alliss Il liss hiss dont put on mrs said miss aless snake fori for I 1 am going to have a new spring suit kult too 1 I cant see very well there Is a film over my lily eyes but who be blind or almost blind for the sake of new clothes certainly nil snakes would bo be will ing to go through that much for now new skins said mrs snake so yourn youre to havo a new outfit tool well well now wont wo we bo be tho them fashionable looking snakes and wont the keeper be proud of us when lie allows its off to tho the people who come to tile the zoo bool zool I 1 lie I lewill will probably say gaze upon my snake beauties they have now new clothes or now skins akans they do riot not ask me for money to pay their dressmakers dresap alters bills they do nut not ask me for money to go to the shops they never spend more than their allowances alloway es in fact I 1 ib hiss hiss swish hiss said miss snake they only have allowances of food and not money 11 they do not cost me anything to be so nicely clad 4 6 yes gaze upon my snake becu ties in their now new spring skins akins 1 probably he will say that agreed agree d miss bliss snake for almo almost stall all of us tire are changing our skins 1 I do hope the people wont pound on the glass in front of pur cages thou though gli last time I 1 banged my head against tile glass and rny nose got ve very ry sore and I 1 pull off my own skin the keeper had to help inland me and I 1 sulTer cd terribly ile fie said it was dreadful the way people did not consider us instead of trying to tense tease us now the snakes es in tit the zoo as well ivell as he file ones which are free change their own si skins ins now new skins grow under the old ones ast ns the lie snakes grow in size their special time for or changing la is in the spring but they do change tit at other times aline too they pull off their old skins which they soften by lying in the water with the aid of their noses it requires about three weeks for tile the new skin to take tile place of the old 8 kin during which time they are almot blind with a film over their i eyes tile the big snakes dont change their skins as often its as we do said mrs snake they dont care nearly so much for i looks suld said miss snake hissing lils sing at them ithem quite rudely bilut I 1 suppose its because they arent fed so often they have big menla meals when they to do eat cat that they are satisfied for u v good long time did you know that our cousins who ihre faro free steep sleep all winter and then wake up lip to eat cat after they have eaten they hey nap ago 11 1 hut here in the zoo we dont sleep tit through rough tile the whole winter because it Is so BO nice and warm wo we dont feel that it I 1 it Is winter arul mrs snake still wriggled to show she knew this flits tool too I 1 but mostly they hissed and t n aked of the new spring suits they would shortly be wearing and of the pleasure it would be to be nil all freshly clad cilli again |