For 48 hours Joseph Pollard, a Yorkshire blacksmith, lay in agony impaled on the spiked bar of a hay lake. He had taken shelter in an outhouse, and slipped off a bench on to the rake, lie died later. Seven snakes timed over level ground in. California had speeds of from a quarter of a mile an hour to three and a third miles an hour, lhe red racer was the fastest; the Cali- ! >rnia boa was slowest
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 92, 18 March 1936, Page 10
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