Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1888 — Snake-Eatiug Snakes. [ARTICLE]

Snake-Eatiug Snakes.

A letter from Mr. Pringle, of Louisiana, the well-known American snipe shot, whose wonderful bags were reported some time since in your paper, contains the following: “I was walking across a very boggy marsh, where there was a good deal of water, and was stumbling along, not with my former youthful agility, when I came near stepping on a snake in coil, what is called a ‘cotton-mouth moccasin,’ whose, bite is not fatal, but somewhat jioisonous. There Luing no stick at hand to kill him, I stepped back and shot him, cutting him not quite, but nearly, in two, and exposing his ‘innards,’ as the negroes say. My man Csesar exclaimed, ‘Massa, he got another snake in him!’ and so he had—one nearly as long as himself. I pulled the swallowed snake out, and held him by the tail alongside the other. The swallower was about thirty inches long and very thick, and the swallowed 11 inches shorter, only that the latter's head and neck were doubled, so as to be forced into the other. Did you ever know of one snake eating another? They say that dog will not eat dog, but it seems that a snake will perform that operation on another snake.”— London Field.