Garter snake

It is a water-dweller; the water is its habitat. It is cylindrical, cord-like, slender-tailed, thick-headed, wide-headed. It has scales; it is scaly—thin scaled. Its belly is dark yellow; it is striped in many hues, some yellow, some green, some black, some chili-red. It is [a serpent] which swallows things whole, which coils, which winds. It winds, it shoots like a dart. Its food, its sustenance, is frogs, reed frogs, green frogs, toads, small frogs, and fish. Whatever small creatures it finds, it swallows.