SNAKE IN THE BED
TWO C'IIILDIiEN BITTEN. Two children were bitten by ,i snake, on a recent. Sunday night while in bed fsliiles Ihe .Terilderi ft correspondent of Ihe M.elbourno "Argus"). The younger child, aged three years, cried out about S p.m. that slio hud "been bitten by something."
The parents lifted her out and found two punctures on her arm. Au n'<ler brother, who is a returned soldier, lanced 11.0 arm -and sucked the wound. While lie was thus engaged, the other child rushed out of Ihe bedroom, crying I hat she had been bitten on I lie leg. The children were driven lo I lie hospital, where the doctor pronounced both eases snakebites, and I hoy were treated accordingly. On Ihe Monday both children were out of danijer. A snaliS) '.bad previously been seen three, or four limes in Ihe bedroom, but it escaped down a hole in Ihe floor. The prompt action (alien by the brother in ihe fir.-t instance undoiibledly saved Ihe children's lives.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 32, 1 November 1919, Page 7
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168SNAKE IN THE BED Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 32, 1 November 1919, Page 7
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