Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on July 18, 1922.
A “Companion boy” who lived in Missouri, and who has been reading the paper since he was a little shaver, writes to tell us what he knows about the cannibalistic habits of snakes. As my brother and I were cocking hay in a clover field, he writes, we found a king snake basking in the July sun; he was too lazy and full to move. Being curious to know what he had devoured, we cut him open. To our astonishment, we found that he contained a black-snake 28 inches long, more than one inch longer than himself; and inside the black snake we found a mouse and a grasshopper. The head and neck of the black snake were purple and indicated that the king snake had killed it.-Youth’s Companion.
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