WHERE SNAKES ABOUND.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 23, Issue 7, 26 January 1912, Page 5

WHERE SNAKES ABOUND.

New South Wales is infested with a great number of poisonous snaLes. "I never was much afraid of snakes,” observed a gentleman recently returned. home after: Spending several years in that country, “ but on one or two occasions in my I have come ina little cldser contact with these venomous reptiles than I would care to .go through again. “ One afternoon as .1 was crossing my garden carrying a glass of water, 1 suddenly felt what I knew to be a snake wind itself around my I'eg. The next moment 1 heard an angry hiss, and felt a sharp - blow strike the glass in my hand. Involuntarily i ■dropped the glass, afid 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 alone 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 milki from the glass. Thinking 1 it was the cat.i I reached out my hand to pat her, hut to my horror.my' hand came in contact with the. cold, clammy body of a snake. T started to niy feet with a cry of alarm,and snatching my. cane from a corner killed tie reptile, which measured over seven feet in length.”