BITTEN BY A SNAKE
ORDEAL OF PEER’S DAUGHTER. While stroking a mole-snake during a visit to the famous snake park attached to the Aluseum at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Lady Joan Aulliers, daughter of the Earl of Clarendon, Governor-Gen-eral of South Africa, was bitten in the right hand. Fortunately, the snake was of a harmless variety, and no harm was done, except for two slight punctures in the skin,, but there was the utmost alarm for a moment in Lady Joan’s entourage. Immediately on feeling the bite. Lady Joan uttered a little cry of alarm and lost colour. She was speedily reassured, however, on being told by officials tint the snake was harmless. Then. Snaking into a smile, she sucked the puncture with vigour. Lady Joan apparently suffered no ill effects, because she attended all subsequent local functions.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 187, 10 August 1931, Page 11
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