WHERE SNAKES ABOUND.

North Otago Times, 2 December 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

WHERE SNAKES ABOUND.

New South Wales ia infested with, a great number ol poisonous snakes. "I never waa much atraid o! snakes," observed a gentleman recently return- ; ed home after spending several years j in that country, " but on one or two I occasions in my lite I have come Into a little closer contact with those venomous reptiles than I would care to go through again. " Ona afternoon as I was crossing my garden carrying a glass ol water, I suddenly felt what I knew to ho. a snake wind itself around my leg. The next moment I heard an angry hiss, and (elt a sharp blow strike the glass in my hand, Involuntarily I dropped the glass, and leaped hack, By this movement I released the Bnake on whose 'tail I had been standing, and it glided away in the grass.

" At another tlmo 1 was sitting alono 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 waa. arrested by the sound of some nnimal lapping the milki from the glass. Thinking it was the cat, 1 reached out my hand to pat her, hub to my horror my hand came in contact with the cold, clammy body of a snake, I started to niy feet with a cry of alarm, and snatching my cane from a corner killed iU reptile, which measured over seven feet in length,"