BITTEN BY A SNAKE

Shannon News, 3 December 1926, Page 3

BITTEN BY A SNAKE

' ♦ PLUCKY YOUTH’S KESOUHCK. \ _ SYDNEY, Nov. 18. A youth named Audley Lowe, son of the postmaster at Burraga, near Bathurst, had' a J thrilling encounter this week with a brown snake which attacked . him while he was cutting timber some miles from the township. As the youth wag fuming over a log the fastened its fangs in the calf of his right leg. Lowe displayed coolness. Though tho reptile hung on savagely, he succeeded in pulling it off. Then he' showed the resource and grit of an experienced bushman in rendering first aid to himself. With some fencing wire Lowe made a ligature, which he drew so tightly round his thigh that it cut into the flesh. With his mate, who had, been some distance away, he set out to send a message to , Bathurst for assistance. But before they had gone many miles young Lowe was overcome with faintness, and his companion was compelled to leave him by (he roadside while he went to Ballyrowe. I,owe was taken to Bathurst after the. doctor had performed an operation on the roadside. Ho was admitted to hospital and is recovering.