896 General Notes. [ August, 
placed in pasture, and the owner, not expecting her to foal, took 
no particular care of her. 
A couple of days ago she foaled while in the pasture and sur- 
rounded by many other horses, which made so much over her 
difficulty that she, being frightened, ran, with her weakling fol- 
lowing after as best she could, in hopes to shelter herself and off- 
spring from the torments of the herd. 
In her excitement she made for the Floyd, a stream running 
through the pasture, some thirty yards in width, which she 
plunged into and swam to the opposite shore; the colt following, 
but lacking strength, did not succeed in leaving the stream, but 
with great tenacity of life clambered into some willows which — 
grew on shore, and there remained, apparently “ hanging on for 
like mad, attracted the attention of the workmen who, when they 
noticed her particular desire that they should follow her—by her 
NINE great joy when they did—went to the stream and rescued 
the colt. 
The mare showed them great kindness until she had recovered 
her offspring, when she became instantly very vicious and wo 
not allow one of the rescuers to approach her.—D. H. Talbot. 
How SNAKES APPROACH AND SWALLOW THEIR Prey.—Speaking 
of snakes and their elastic throat capacity, it occurs to me a 
sixty years as naturalist and half a century as taxidermist wou 
most likely bring several points of interest under an eye not to- 
tally blind. By practice a man will sit or stand motionless pee 
than he can at first believe possible, and it is only when this a 
is acquired that animals are fully over-reached. They seem 
recognize life in a great measure only by motion. j a 
I have had a creature touch my coat with his nose and pass 
only a little suspicious. I have had a humming bird hang sus- 
pended within a foot of my own nose for half a mi! 
me squarely in the eye, and as I did not even wins, 
There is no perceptible movement. One little sp : 
moves, while all the rest is fixed. The head moves 9y oe a 
petus from the tail perhaps, and when striking distance is pa a 
is i se 
the muscles are gathered for the final spring. z apg is 
no regard to what part of the object is reached. If down 
caught, as is often the case, by a hind leg, that lee ae tches 2 ‘ 
first, while the body follows ina bunch. If a sna 
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