. The literary digest. e, the recurved teeth taking aninextricable grip. After the buck has beendrowned the python coils itself around thebody and crushes it into an elongated mass,for convenience in the process of saliva of the snake flows freely, butonly over that portion of the prey whichis engulfed. The python does not regardthe horns, which are occasionally to beseen sticking out through its the carcass, including the bones,has been dissolved in the powerful gastricjuices, the horns drop off and the holesfill up, the snake apparently being nonethe worse for the


. The literary digest. e, the recurved teeth taking aninextricable grip. After the buck has beendrowned the python coils itself around thebody and crushes it into an elongated mass,for convenience in the process of saliva of the snake flows freely, butonly over that portion of the prey whichis engulfed. The python does not regardthe horns, which are occasionally to beseen sticking out through its the carcass, including the bones,has been dissolved in the powerful gastricjuices, the horns drop off and the holesfill up, the snake apparently being nonethe worse for the perforations. So far as I know, the python is the onlysnake which incubates its eggs. Such,numbering from thirty to fifty at a brood,and weighing about five and one-halfounces each, are usually laid in a deeprock-crevice or in the deserted burrowof an ant-bear or a hyena. The mothercoils herself over and around the incubation period the snakestemperature rises somewhat. Speaking of snakes that are not only. • ^.^.^^.>.>.v^ fe^ t t Why this Strong Demandfor QuaUty in Hats? ^l>^Z MAN has so many uses forhis money these days that he isbuying with his eyes wide open. Looking for value—and value ina hat means both quality and style. So becomes naturally to a Stetson— with its 5^^^/% attested by fifty-four years of making only finehats; and its style authenticated bythe customers of over ten thousandhatters and haberdashers from Coast to Coast. It should interest you to knowthat the Stetson sales in New YorkCity exceed those of any othermake of high-grade hats in theworld — Derbies and Soft Hats soldby more than sixty stores patronizedby New Yorks leading fact full of meaning — whichmakes it doubly worth your whileto find the Stetson Quality-Mark inyour hat. JVe shall be glad to send you thelittle book^ The Making of a StetsonHat — and with it A LittleJourney to the Home of John , by Elbert Hubbard. Justsend in your request on


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