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the aquarium. I next caught a garden mole. As I 

 had always been taught that moles fed upon angle- 

 worms and grubs, I reasoned that it might like 

 slugs. The mole did make an attempt to eat the 

 one I offered it, but I never freed the mole from 

 the slime, the reason being that the stuff seemed to 

 drive the animal crazy, and it escaped. 



With its funny nose held high in air the animal 

 tried to run across the lawn, making no attempt 

 to burrow in the ground, but uttering a series of 

 rat-like squeaks, it disappeared under some bushes 

 in the corner of the fence, where I was unable for 

 some time to find it. Although uninjured by me 

 the mole only lived a short time after it was 

 rescued. 



Slugs will eat the vegetables in your garden and 

 I imagine do considerable 



DAMAGE TO THE FLOWER GARDENS, 



for in New Orleans I noticed upon various oc- 

 casions people engaged in killing slugs which they 

 found among their flowering plants. It is the only 

 creature of which I know that can be 



CAUGHT BY PUTTING SALT ON ITS TAIL, 



and that seems to be the regular method of killing 

 them in the South. 



The reason for this digression from the subject 

 of snakes is the fact that if any of these little 

 snakes eat slugs it would appear that it might be 



