KILLED WITH AN AXE.
SNAKE ON MAN'S ARM. . To have a snake crawl over his left arm while lie was lopping a tree at Great Harlow, New South Wales, was the experience of Mr. R. Lennox, line foreman in the Postal Department, recently. He was about 30ft-. from the ground, when the snake wriggled out from the bark of the tree and rested momentarily upon Ins arm. Realising his clanger, Mr. Lennox remained still, and the snake, unperturbed, crept on, and paused for a second on the trunk of the tree. Jt was a fatal pause, for.Mi'. Lennox ki.ll.ed it with his axe.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19720, 20 August 1927, Page 12
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