Htimble-Bces and other Matters, i6i 
comes greatly excited when it sees one, and pro- 
ceeds at once to destroy it ; they say^ by running 
round and round it in a circle, emitting its violent 
smell in larger measure, untib the snake dies of 
suffocation. It is hard to believe that the effect 
can be so great ; but that the deer is a snake hater 
and killer is certainly true : in North America, 
Ceylon, and other districts deer have been observed 
excitedly leaping on serpents, and killing them with 
their sharp cutting hoofs. 
