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But he has gone back into his hole frightened to death at such dreadful noises. Hello! what's the matter with Edie now?" The little sister had fallen, tripped up by some rough roots, and, expecting the poor startled garter-snake to come and make a meal off her, she was calling loudly for help. Miss Harson had her in her arms in a moment, and it was soon found that one foot had quite a bad bruise.
This comes of settling a country! he said. Here have I known the pigeon to fly for forty long years, and, till you made your clearings, there was nobody to skeart or to hurt them, I loved to see them come into the woods, for they were company to a body, hurting nothing being, as it was, as harmless as a garter-snake.
Before they spring upon their prey, the eye is always steadily fixed, the back lowered, the neck stretched out, and the tail waved from side to side; if the eye is averted, they lose the animal, and do not make the spring." "Are there any other kinds of snakes in Canada, nurse," asked Lady Mary, "besides the garter-snake?"
Along the water are a number of snakes, some of a uniform brown color, others black, and a third speckled on the abdomen, and striped with black and a brownish yellow on the back and sides. The first, which is the largest, is about four feet long; the second is of the kind mentioned yesterday; and the third resembles in size and appearance the garter-snake of the United States.
"I have seen the garter-snake open her mouth and let the little ones run into it when danger was nigh; the snake also lays eggs: I have seen and handled them often; they are not covered with a hard, brittle shell, like that of a hen, but with a sort of whitish skin, like leather; they are about the size of a blackbird's egg, long in shape, some are rounder and larger.
He was fishing one day in a river near his own house, but, being tired, he seated himself on a log or fallen tree, where his basket of fish also stood; when a large garter-snake came up the log, and took a small fish out of his basket, which it speedily swallowed.
Useless to inquire, "Where hast thou been, sweet Annatoo?" For no sweet rejoinder would she give. But now the problem was solved. Here, in this silent cask in the hold, Annatoo was wont to coil herself away, like a garter-snake under a stone.
"Look out for snakes!" the children used to call to each other when deep in the bushes, but they never saw anything more than a harmless garter-snake, or perhaps a water-snake in the swamp.
We should be cruel were we wantonly to inflict pain upon the least of God's creatures; but to kill them in self-defence, or for necessary food, is not cruel; for when God made Adam, He gave him dominion, or power, over the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and every creeping thing. "The large garter-snake, that which you saw, my dear lady, is comparatively harmless.
"Oh! oh! oh!" screamed Edith, and began to run. "Oh! oh! oh!" echoed Clara; and Malcolm declared that she was just like "Jill," who "came tumbling after." "What is the matter, children?" asked their governess, in dismay; but she stood perfectly still. "Only a poor little garter-snake," said Malcolm, "putting his head out to see if it's warm enough for him yet.
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