WHERE SNAKES ABOUND.

Northland Age, Volume VIII, Issue 25, 9 February 1912, Page 7

WHERE SNAKES ABOUND.

New South Wales is infested with a great number of pois n *us sna. -s

”1 never was much afiuid of snakes,” observed a gentleman recently returned home alter spending several years in that country, “ but <’U one or two occasions in my life I fiavo come in to a little closer contact ~ih th-se venomous reptiles than I would care to go through again. “ One afternoon as I was crossing my garden carrying a slass of water, I suddenly felt what i Knew to be a snake wind itself around my leg. The next moment I heard an angry loss, and felt a sharp blow strike the glass in my hand. Involuntarily I dropped the glass, and leaped back. By this movement I released the snake on whose tail I had been standing, and it glided away in the grass.

“ At another time 1 was sitting a lone at a table on which stood a glass of milk. I was leaning forward with my head buried in my hands. All at once my attention was arrested by the sound of some animal lapping the milk from the glass. Thinking it was the cat, I reached out my hand to pat her, but to my horror my hand came in contact with the cold, clammy body of a snake. I started to my f»*et with a cry of alarm, and snatching my cane from a corner Killed u.t reptile, which measured over seven feet in length.”