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NZ Truth, Issue 602, 30 December 1916, Page 11

A erood story comes from Madrid about the escape of a couple of boaconstrictors from the Zoological Gardens m the Park of Bueno Rotiro, The municipal guards were turned out to the number of 200, and, after a. whole day's boating of the park, v huge ser- ' pentlne body was descried concealed among tho long grass. Th« guards were drawn up In lino, luid from a safe diatanco poured m a deadly Are which lasted a quarter of an hour Ai last, when It was thought that the craiturw had be«n smtNciently killed. tho men approached tho niung'tod remains, only to discover that they hud been bombarding: a gurden hose! They ultimately Bueeoeded la killing one of the boa -constrictors, but the other, having become for the time perfectly harmless by gorging itself with a stolen groat, was rescued from tho military, and curried back to it« apartment. Dingo Eucalyptus Extract haa two good points: (1) Purest, (2) Beat. !/-••