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discovered snugly coiled around the tree in the cage, resting after having 
s’wallo’wed both fowls; and the dark one was sleeping in one corner on 
the floor, as if he had gone there to sulk after he had discovered that his 
companion had eaten all the food. As a rule snakes prefer animals to 
An after-dinner nap. 
birds, but if they have no choice, and the birds are seasoned with hunger 
sauce, they will take what is put before them. Once a big Muscovy 
drake was put in a cage for a snake’s supper, but next morning the 
keepers were thoroughly disgusted when they found that the drake had 
used the snake as a perch to roost upon. It was left there for months, 
and apparently both bird and snake approved of the arrangement, for 
