BRAVE GRANNIE
From Sydney comes the story of how a brave grandmother of 73 saved two little boys from a poisonous snake. '..':::'. Mrs. A. Snowdon came ont of her daughter's house at Earlwood and saw the children at play. Only a foot away a snake was poised to strike the five* year-old Terry. > -.■ ■Mrs. Snowdon' snatched up a broom and struck the snake just in time to prevent it from striking the child. It turned on her venomously, and she drew it away from the little ones. : A battle followed between the furious snake and the old grannie of 73,* the one armed with poison fangs and the, other with a broom; but the old lady wielded her broom so well that die »o* ( in a fatal blow, and the danger *M over. ' -
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 138, 14 June 1930, Page 18
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133BRAVE GRANNIE Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 138, 14 June 1930, Page 18
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