-Chen she had exhausted every possible means of driving 
him off, she suddenly turned about, ran up to the nest above 
and seized a young one in her mouth and running down past the 
snake on the opposite side of the tree, made her way into a 
neighboring tree. She was chattering all the time and fumbling 
and fondling the young one. She was not satisfied but kept 
coming back and I soon found out why — I shot the snake and he 
oame tumbling down, and as I reached him I was startled by 
what I saw — the snake had two legs, a new feature in snaked ora 
and I felt myself on the verge of a great discovery. The mystery 
was soon explained, however. A young squirrel had been swallowed 
and two of its legs were protruding from the bullet holes on the 
opposite side of the snake’s body. The distress of the mother 
squirrel was pathetic, and after depositing the young one in the 
neighboring &ak, she came back again and again looking for the 
lost one. 
The motherly care of the squirrel for her young, and 
the human-like intelligence which led her, when she realized 
that her most strenuous efforts were in vain, to turn about and 
save the other babe, carrying it dovm the opposite side of the 
tree to make sure of saving it from the fangs of the serpent were 
wonderful. 
I carried the snake to camp where it was an object of 
much interest and later I made a sketch of the battle in the 
tree. I shot three times - each shot taking effect - the last 
one, tearing the beast’s head all to pieces, brought him down. 
