Further Comment on the Glass 
Snake 
DEAR FOREST AND STREAM: 
BOUT two months ago I read a letter 
in your magazine in which the state- 
ment was made that only the tail could 
be broken off of the glass or joint 
snake. I had intended to write to the 
author at the time but forgot it and 
now I do not have the number of the 
magazine at hand. 
I can assure the gentleman that if 
he will handle one of those snakes 
more roughly than he did he can break 
the snake into at least three joints be- 
tween the body and tail. Each joint 
will be about three inches long and 
broken squarely off at each end. 
After one joint is gone the snake can 
no longer crawl. 
My only experiences with joint 
snakes have been in the mountain land 
of Tennessee. Perhaps they are more 
brittle there than in other places. 
The first one that I ever saw ap- 
peared suddenly under the feet of a 
young lady as she was walking along 
a woods path. She was too frightened 
to run but began a hysterical dance on 
it with the result that the snake was 
in three pieces before the dancer could 
be calmed down enough to give the 
snake a chance to run, and then it 
could not run. 
Later I tried to see how many pieces 
I could make of one of the same snake 
family and the result was the body, 
three square ended pieces and the tail. 
C. P. YEATMAN. 
_ Preserve America’s Emblematic 
Bird 
DEAR FOREST AND STREAM: 
A®* a reader of your sportsman’s 
magazine I take the liberty to write 
the following: 
Our National Bird, the American 
Eagle, should be saved. What matter 
a few rabbits and other animals com- 
pared with him. The eagle should be 
as sacred to us as the flag. The chief 
design on our coins, seals, etc., must 
not be but a passing memory, as the 
Passenger Pigeon, but must be an 
actual living fact. The birds living 
now must exist or go the way of the 
Buffalo. Therefore all nature lovers 
and sportsmen should back the Nelson 
& Southerland bill which is now be- 
fore Congress. By club indorsement 
and individual letters this bill should 
win out. Americans, back this bill! 
VERNON SMITH, 
Indianapolis, Ind. 

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