His tbick flannel trousers probably saved tho life of a farmer, Mr. Sitfel fiu Toit, of Harrismith, NAtal. Mr. du Toit, wlio Was feeding teff into A thrashing machine, felt What he thought to be a tldck piece of wire round his leg, and tried to shake it off. An several shakes failed to dislodge the "wire," he bent down and, to his horror, found his leg cncircled by a liuge yellow cobra. The roptile, in trying to bite him, had got its fangs so deeply in tUo cloth of the trousers leg that it could not got loose Again. Mr. du Toit jerkod it away with ruch force that the fangs remained erabedded in the trousers, and tho snake was killed,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 153, 16 July 1937, Page 17
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