SAVED BY TROUSERS.
FARMER'S NARROW ESCAPE. SNAKE ROUND LEG. DURBAN, May 27. His thick flannel trousers probably saved the life of a farmer, Mr. Sarel du Toit, of Harrismith, Natal. Mr. du Toit, who was feeding teff into a threshing machine, felt what he thought to be a thick piece of wire round his leg, and tried to shake it off. As several shakes failed to dislodge the "wire," he bent down and, to his horror, found his leg encircled by a huge yellow cobra. The reptile, in trying to bite him, had got its fangs so deeply in the cloth of the trousers leg that it could not get loose again. Mr. du Toit jerked it away with such force that the fangs remained embedded in the trousers, and the snake was killed.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 150, 26 June 1937, Page 19
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