That is not a snake that the adult burrowing owl is feeding to its chick. It's a caterpillar - which goes to show just how small they are. They are also much more relaxed around humans than other species of owls. They will happily colonize areas like airports and golf courses and have even been known to nest in larger gardens.
Many Cargoes was the W.W. Jacobs first collection of short stories in 1896. In 1897, The Skipper's Wooing was written and in 1898 Jacobs wrote another collection of stories, Sea Urchins. By 1899 Jacobs was confident enough to resign from the civil service to devote his full time to writing.
The newspaper is published six days a week in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal. The Wall Street Journal was founded by Jordan Goldman in 1889 and is based in New York, United States.