Show SNAKE EGGS SI oil LA OSSI Iiri iri among other duties left to the un tiring energy of the staff of this pa per upon the departure of frank A beckwith for his work for the utah state museum was that of hatching out his brood of snake eggs brought in by ward robinson well these eggs were cosily ced in a bucket of sand and we took them home and put them in the back yard in a nice warm spot and noth ing happened several days passed and so all di I 1 several cats on mysterious errands bent these prowling felines scratched con sand out into the yard and fished out the eggs too four eggs completely diss disappeared appeared and altho we witness the sight bight we strong ly suspicion the cats ot of eating them or carrying them away tor for a nest egg the rest of the effs e gs just sat in the aard ard and ossified and there they are now dried and shriveled and hard as brickbats we are publishing this for the benefit of those of our readers who enjoy reading our snake stories for those of our readers who are not in te rested in snakes snake eggs cats or calves we would like to say that thit we dont know what would have hap bened it if those eggs had hatched tor for we have had no demand tor for baby snakes either singly or in pairs |