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half hour (after the frog had been swallowed for the 

 second time) I could still hear it give a faint croak." 

 — B. J. Horton, Sparkbrook, Birmingham. 



Ring snake in a stone. — A most curious snake 

 incident was related to me by the Rev. F. W. Brand- 

 reth of Buckland Newton, Dorset. Some five years 



Fig. 14. — Ring Snake in a Stone. 



This illustration represents the condition of affairs found by the keeper. This is 

 not the actual specimen, but a flint I found in the same locality (where they 

 abound), and which the keeper assured me was idem ical in appearance with 

 the original one. I inserted a ring snake through the hole in the flint, to 

 show the result, as he found it. 



ago (i.e., in 1895) his keeper found a ring snake em- 

 bedded in a flint stone, from which it could not 

 possibly escape. The stone had a hole in the centre, 

 and the body of the snake was protruding from either 



