HOUSE AND GARDEN 
July, 1914 
mson 
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parent of neither the egg-laying (ovipa¬ 
rous) or the viviparous serpents pays any 
attention to the destiny of her young. 
Meeting her babies by chance, she glides 
coldly by with no more sign of recognition 
than if nothing were there. By chance the 
youngsters may incidentally find the 
mother’s hiding place, and, as incidentally, 
take refuge in it owing to its shelter. She 
treats them with an indifference so marked 
that we may not even define it as tolera¬ 
tion. Coming forth to bask, there is a cer¬ 
tain tendency for the babies to snuggle 
together — possibly nestle among the 
mother’s coils, but if danger comes she 
dashes them in every direction in her 
spring to straighten out and dart for shel¬ 
ter, and the snakelets, not a what embar¬ 
rassed by this lack of mother-love, glide 
into chinks and crannies to safety. The 
family disappear like water splashed on 
hot brick, and from the point of view of 
practicability this is the safest way for a 
snake family to disperse. There are tales 
of female snakes swallowing the litter of 
young in time of danger, but how foolish 
would be the serpent mother to hesitate to 
engulf her family, and in the delay that 
must ensue risk her life and the lives of 
her babies as well! 
There are one hundred and eleven spe¬ 
cies of snakes inhabiting the United 
States.. Of this number seventeen are 
poisonous. While the species of poison¬ 
ous snakes are in the minority as compared 
with the harmless ones, about every por¬ 
tion of this country contains venomous 
serpents of one or more kinds. The ma¬ 
jority of them are found in the southern 
latitudes, though the few northern species 
are so abundant that venomous snakes are 
actually more common in some sections of 
Pennyslvania and New York than in the 
South. Compared with the numbers we 
ordinarily meet in our rambles the harm¬ 
less serpents largely predominate. The 
North American dangerous snakes may 
be easily identified — except two. These 
are the coral snakes. They are slender 
of body and thus look quite inoffensive. 
They belong, in fact, to a subdivision of 
the family containing the non-venomous 
snakes, and within their group is included 
the terrible cobra of India. Fortunately, 
these deceptive reptiles are brilliantly 
ringed with scarlet, yellow and black. In 
color, several harmless snakes “mimic” 
them. The coral snakes have broad alter¬ 
nate rings of scarlet and black, the latter 
bordered by narrow rings of yellow. 
Though the effect of the coloration of the 
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