"Milk snake" Quotes from Famous Books
... number of our snakes are harmless, beautiful, and beneficient. They are friendly to the farmer, because, although some destroy a few birds, chickens, ducklings, and game, the largest part of their food is mice and insects. The Blacksnake, the Milk Snake, and one or two others, will bite in self-defence, but they have no poison fangs, and the bite is much like the ... — Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts
... climbed the orchard wall to cross the road, a milk snake was sunning on the loose stones among the raspberry bushes, the first I had ever seen; and I bear witness that the ancestral antipathy to the serpent leaped within me instantly. I beat his head without remorse, ay, pounded ... — When Life Was Young - At the Old Farm in Maine • C. A. Stephens
... we find three venomous species, the Rattlesnake, the Massasauga, and the Copper-Head. The largest serpents are the Black Snake, five feet long, and the Milk Snake, from five ... — Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 7, No. 43, May, 1861 • Various |