Undertook to remove the python, a twenty-two foot python, from its cage so that the perfectly realistic jungle scene painted on the back ground might be freshened up? A little, Selina was asleep when the raid was contemplated and it was a simple matter to throw a mouse over her neck. Several other noises were thrown around the reptile's sleeping form. Then Ditmars and his twelve assistants started to pull. That woke the snake up and twelve men went sprawling in twelve different directions. The keepers pulled themselves together and then commenced to pull the snake apart, or, at least, that is what it looked like to half a dozen observers who watched the proceedings. After two hours of hard work the reptile was forcibly removed from its cage to another one about one hundred and fifty feet away. Struggles with pythons are not unfamiliar to Mr. Ditmars and his doughty assistants, as these reptiles have a pronounced habit of trying to starve themselves. After a good meal a month can worry along for three or four months without another morsel, but very frequently three or four months pass and still these reptiles, to show their utter disgust with prevailing conditions, will refuse to answer the dinner bell. 