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SUMMER GREEN SNAKE. 
Manner of Mimicking a Vine. 
North, can be handled with not the slightest risk of danger. 
We once knew a gentleman who had one in confinement, 
whom he had trained to eat from a dish and to come to his 
hand at the sound of his voice. The beautiful creature, 
which was a female, showed the most marked affection, and 
would often twine her little form about his neck or glide her 
smooth head, lazily as it seemed, along his face and forehead. 
An extremely common snake in the Eastern United States 
is the Water Snake. Nerodia sipedon is the name by which 
it is known to the naturalist. There is in Michigan an 
allied form, known as the Red-bellied Water Snake, which is 
quite as common, while several other species abound in 
other localities. They are all inoffensive creatures and prey 
