COOKED SNAKE
BROWN SNAKE, TRAPPED IN HOUSEHOLD OVEN, NEWCAgTLE, gat. Cooked browxl snake' may be a delicacy for an aborigine, but it was a poor Substitute for a hot dinner for the Drew family, of Lawson-street, Hamilton, last night. As Miss Dorothy Drew opened the door of the fuel stove to put in a dish of vegetables, a brown snake two .feet long rdared up iri the oven and spoked out his head. ,.She drppped the vegeahles, banged the door qf the oven, and stoked up the fire until it was burning , mer-s ^ rily. • , ®r'j "^rew returned from work and nis wife and daughter asked him to get a stick and kill the sriakejm the ovexx. He opened the oven door, fevealing the snake, done to a turri, but past cariixg. It is thought tliat the- oven must have been slightly warm, and . the door ajar, and Ihe snake attrac-ted by the smell of cooking and the warmth, must have curled up to sleep.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 49, 20 October 1931, Page 4
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164COOKED SNAKE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 49, 20 October 1931, Page 4
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