DO YOU KNOW
HOW SNAKES WERE EXPELLED PROM IRELAND? When the fine old St. Patrick first went over to Ireland the country was . over-run with wretched snakes. He determined to get rid of them, so drove them all into the sea. One huge venomous ( monster refused to go, so he made a box and enticed it in, then shut the lid down tightly and threw it far out to sea. Kven to-day, when the sea is very stormy and rough, the peasants declare that the snake St. Patrick tossed into sea is still writhing with anger causing the storm, and the roaring of the billows is the noise the reptile is making.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 12 March 1927, Page 18
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112DO YOU KNOW Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 12 March 1927, Page 18
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