Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys . thing but to kill its small enemy. The pairliterally fought all over the garden, the other animals giving place, and thebirds flying about and screaming with excitement. While passing near a wall the snake stuck at its enemy, missed it andnearly stunned itself against the hard bricks. In an instant the moon-gus was on top of its back, with its teeth buried in its neck. The snakemade frantic efforts to shake its enemy off, but the moongus held on althoughits body was so battered that it seemed as if every bone must be least the snake fel
Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys . thing but to kill its small enemy. The pairliterally fought all over the garden, the other animals giving place, and thebirds flying about and screaming with excitement. While passing near a wall the snake stuck at its enemy, missed it andnearly stunned itself against the hard bricks. In an instant the moon-gus was on top of its back, with its teeth buried in its neck. The snakemade frantic efforts to shake its enemy off, but the moongus held on althoughits body was so battered that it seemed as if every bone must be least the snake fell dead and the moongus sprang off a foot or two. Itdid not seem to be hurt an atom but ran round and round the cobras bodyleaping from time to time and chattering in triumph. The moongus does the snakes great harm in other ways besidesfighting with them. When a cobra lays its eggs it generally does so insome warm corner and then after covering them with earth, leaves the heatof the sun to do the hatching. The moongus hunts for these eggs, digs. = V)\ vvVa^^ ^^s^ A MOONGUS ATTACKING A COBRA. THE MOONGUS AND THE COBRA them up and eats them. It is on these occasions that the fiercest battlestake place, for the cunning snake is always on the lookout for enemies. Ittries to sneak up behind the moongus and take it unwares, but the chancesare a hundred to one that it will hear its enemy coming. The moongus is a good hunter, for it fears nothing. Should a mole orany other subterranean animal appear, the moongus flies at it, and if it seeksrefuge in its burrow in the ground, will follow it in, and later is seen backingout of the excavation, dragging the luckless mole too. The only time that the moongus shows an irritable nature towardshuman beings is when it is feeding, being liable to use its sharp little teethfreely; but this is not common, because it usually drags its food off to aquiet spots, where it will not be disturbed. When the moongus is angry itspreads its tail out like a bot
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