SNAKE IN CITY STREET. A snake which had managed to find its way into the heart of Manchester caused a large crowd to assemble in Tib Street. When a police inspector airived on the scene he found a snake about 18 inches long wriggling on the pavement. One man stood with handkerchief poised vainly endeavouring to catch the reptile unaware and pick it up, and another man waved an iron bar, calling, “Shall I kill it?” The inspector calmed the excited crowd and walked on to a bird fancier’s shop ifor assistance. “ It’s probably one of our grass snakes,” said a youth of 18. “ I’ll come and fetch it.” The young man strolled casually through the crowd, picked up the snake, rolled it into a ball, and slipped it into his uocket, amid the admiring murmur* of tbe onlookers.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1929, Page 8
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