Their brain seems to act like that of the alligator or the pike, paroxysmally, and by rare fits and starts, after lying for hours motionless as if asleep.

But when excited, they will attempt great deeds.

Dr.De Verteuil tells a story--and if he tells it, it must be believed--of some hunters who wounded a deer.

The deer ran for the stream down a bank; but the hunters had no sooner heard it splash into the water than they heard it scream.

They leapt down to the place, and found it in the coils of a Huillia, which they killed with the deer.