1 APRIL 1893, Page 17

HAVE SNAKES THE POWER OF SCENT ?

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE 4' SPEOTATOR.41 SIR,—In the Spectator of March 186, you head a snake incident by asking, "Have Snakes the Power of Scent ?" That some attractive sympathy exists amongst them seems evident. Some years ago a large English snake wag; killed and left on the garden-path near to the house. Having a great dread of the reptiles, and the curious desire to look upon the "horror," I went to see the dead serpent. It lay lifeless upon the stony path ; but moving about its wounded head was a living snake, apparently of the same species, and too much engrossed with the grim object to notice my presence. Some sympathy must have attracted the shy creature to its mate,— I am, Sir, &c., Strathmore House, Leamington. C. S. LuNiv,