A Plague of Serpents.
Dr Leighton, who has just written a book about our British serpents, speakes of a house in Wales which was infested with serpents, like Hamelin town or Bishop Hatto’s castle with rats. Something of the same kind has just occurrred in the reptile house at tho Zoo. The largest number of snakes ever added in one day has arrived from South Africa. No fewer than seventy-one now serpents have to be packed away somehow in that overflowing building. Fortunately they are all little ones ; for seventy-one 20ft pythons would constitute a problem that could only be solved by a St Hilda or a St Patrick.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 14 November 1901, Page 4
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109A Plague of Serpents. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 14 November 1901, Page 4
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