A python’s eggs are about the same size as those of a hen. After laying about a hundred, the female coils herself round them and remains thus until the young are hatched. This takes two months, during which time the snake fasts. The Tower of London is not in the ! City of London, the boundary of | which stops short at the west wall of the old fortress.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18938, 7 December 1929, Page 21 (Supplement)
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