A SNAKE STORY.
REPTILE CRAWLS UP MAN'S LEG.
[FROM OTTR own correspondent.] Stdnt.t, November 2. A remarkable story of an adventure with a snake comes from Singleton, in the northern part of this State. A Mr. Ward was driving into the town when ho saw a man named Hoad in a. peculiar 6tooping attitude near the roadway. Ward pulled up, and the man explained that while he was having a doze under some oak trees a snake had got up the leg of his trousers, and he had had to cling to it to stop the reptile from biting. Between them they managed to disentangle the snake, which was of the black species, almost three feet long. It .had wound itself round Head's leg when •he had gripped its head. Hoad was not bitten.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 1514, 9 November 1912, Page 8
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