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Evening Star, Issue 12765, 19 March 1906, Page 3

Among some Indian exr,eriences and anecdotes related by readers of the ' Gentlewoman' this week is the following true snake story :—" In the next bungalow a little boy daily had his bowl of bread and milk on the verandah, sitting in a child's high ohair. He was as merry as a cricket; one heard hiir? talking and crowing to himself, apparently, until one morning, to my horror, I saw him tapping the head of a cobra gently with his spoon, saying :. ■' Bobbery, bobbery' (naughty, naughty). The snake was quietly drinking the milk out of the bowl, paying no heed to the child's play. A sudden noise or movement-oh my part, and the cobra would instantly have turned and bitten the boy. Presently down slid the reptile away into some bushes, and I got the men to go and kill it. The child cried bitterly, and said the snake, had come every morning and helped him with his< breakfast."