A HUNGRY SNAKE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9095, 14 March 1908, Page 7

A HUNGRY SNAKE.

Up on the Miehelong where numbers of pastoral ists from Yass and surrounding districts and cattlemen from the Tumut side of the mountains have their flocks and herds seeking grass, which is so scarce in their own particular localities,snakes are plentiful. Some tall stories are in circulation, says the Sydney Daily Telegraph, as to the wonderful pranks nlayed by the reptiles, but one going” the rounds of the Yass district at present will take a lot of beating. It is told how ayoung man, trudging steadily along th'e side of a hill on which hop bushes grew profusely, felt a tug at his “tupker” bag. He took no notice of the’incident. Another pull, sharper than the first, made him look, and his horrified gaze mat the cold beady eyes of a brown snake. That young man’s heels could not be seen for dust for fully ten minutes afterwards. An hour later the “tucker” bag was recovered, minus provisions, which were to have supplied two shepherds for the day. They went without.