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Show nATB FOR 8NAKE3, Slual II L'auiht Oiil.lnora l Ita Ac-rrplahla Ac-rrplahla lu.i.l. Snakes hao the sense af smell. It Is dlfllcult to obtain food for rattle-makes rattle-makes and water-vipers. Tho owner of n small prlvato collection has beeu trying them on tho house rats and mice ho has caught about tho buildings. build-ings. Ho would leavo these In tho inako cage over night and through the lay. Thoy would run over the make with Impunity. The make would pay no attention to them, but when ha happened to secure some field mica and put them In the cage, tho snakes ate them nt onco. He then put In sovcral rata and mice of tbe ordinary house variety that he had caught out of doors, and these wero sotted by the makes almost as readily as tho wild species. He then conceived the Idea of making an earth box to keep tho rati In for a whllo beforo feeding, and toon found that If they were put In there for 13 hours or io beforo they wero given to the makei they would bo eaten. Tho only apparent explanation explana-tion li that the smell of the earth Is deilrablo by tho makes, and that tho smell which the animals acquire about building! li objectionable. |