this, a Deer Mouse ran out of the hole where the Snake’s 
head had been and climbed into the very top of the tree. 
Although of nearly full size, it looked like a young 
animal and it was evidently very much frightened and 
somewhat confused, perhaps by the strong sunlight. 
Scarcely had it disappeared among the foliage 
than the Snake again showed his head at the opening. He 
had another Mouse exactly resembling the first in this 
mouth and had already swallowed its head and most of 
the body. Before I left^ the plane, all but the tail 
and hind feet has disappeared down the Snake’s throat. 
The holes just mentioned were about a foot apart in the 
side of a nearly horizontal section of the trunk. Neither 
of them was much more than’ large enough to admit my 
forefinger. One would think a Mouse safe in such a 
retreat, but the Snake can go anywhere, apparently. 
The apple-tree was not an old, decayed one but a very 
vigorous and nearly sound tree. 
(The yelping call like that of a young hound 
is coming from the meadow across the wood as I write 
these lines. I have heard it a dozen times or more during 
the past hour (8-9 P. M.), mingling with the voices 
of Garden Toads and Tree Toads. It must be the note of 
some Batrachian, I think. 
