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 SNAKE-SKIN HUNTER 



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IT would be interesting to 

 know just where our whim- 

 sical vireo obtained those 



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snake-skins. A fragment of 



snake -skin, or even one whole skin, we might allow 

 him; but three or four! this is rather suspicious. 

 Had he discovered a family of sleepy striped snakes 

 about to drop their winter clothing, and taken care of 

 their cast-off garments one by one as they were left in 

 the grass? But this is stretching a point in favor of our 

 vireo and his valor. I rather suspect that this particular 



