DEATH-ADDER'S BITE.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17259, 24 September 1921, Page 5

DEATH-ADDER'S BITE.

YOUNG GIRL SAVED. •The girl screamed- . She had trodden on a death-adder. Its deadly fangs were in h«r calf. She and her two brothers, young men, had gone down into one of the deep gullies near Spring wood, in New South Wales, to gather boronia. The party were in the thick bush, four miles from Faulconbridge. They were as isolated in that precipitous ravine* as if they had been in the centre of Australia. But the brotiiers knew what to do, and did itt instantly. One whipped oif his .hoot, took out the lace ana made a ligature above the bite. Tho other got his knife and gashed the wound to make it bleed freely. "We saw the poison running up her leg," said one. Their sister was already in a comatose state. It was a matter of life or death to get her into a doctor's hands. There was nothing to-do but to attempt to carry her through the thick bush and up the precipitous sides of the gully. . It was only after they had taken these prompt measures that they killed the death-bidder. They took up their sister and bore her unconscious body through the busk; and though the case seemed hopeless they struggled on until they emerged on the railway line. And at that moment Providence intervened. _An engine came along. The brothers signalled it, and tjhe., engine made fast tinie with the girl' and her brothers on board H 6 Sptingwdoft. r- There Dr Newmarch attended to. ]^ r . now s jj e j s on the road to reiidvery. The death-adder is now on view at a grocer's store in Springwood. It is 22in. long. And all Springwood is proud of these young Australians, who, in such an emergency, when fractions of a second meant life or death, showed such promptitude and capability.