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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 
Fic. 44.—-Ring Snake IN a STONE. 
This iNustration represents the condition of aflairs 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 identical 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 (@¢., 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 
