A SHAKE IN LONDON
A MOTDRIST’S EXPERIENCE A reader sends an account of a big and aggressive snake in what may ho almost called suburban London. lie was motoring southward out of Shorthands, and when near Hayes Common ho saw what looked like a pice® of thick rope lying in a zig-zag fashion across the road. Nearer, he saw it was a snake of unusual size, certainly _ not less than four feet long, and an inch and a-half round the thickest part of its laxly. He was now so near that tiia car passed over its head. Thinking it had been killed, he left the car and went to it. As lie touched it with liis foot, however, it raised its head and struck him twice on the boot below tho ankle. Astonished at this attack ho drew back, and the snak® followed him up to strike again, hub receiving a sharp kick it swiftly glided into a ditch. Tin’s happened notwithstanding that it had been palpably hurts’ by the ear, for there was blood on th® road. Its colour was green and brown*
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Evening Star, Issue 20137, 30 March 1929, Page 20
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184A SHAKE IN LONDON Evening Star, Issue 20137, 30 March 1929, Page 20
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