Oh, tolerably good. I used to trap the snakes in the garden and keep them in boxes to observe them. They were fascinating to me, almost of another world. Then I grew older and came to understand such captivity as a cruelty. Now I prefer to observe them as they are and learn of them from books and study--though the former is best, of course. To see something in its habitat, there is nothing better.

Why do you ask? Have you come near to a snake lately?