A Taste for Eggs.
CARPET SNAKE’S MISTAKE MAN’S NARROW ESCAPE. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 8.35 a.m.) Sydney, February 25. Mrs Kennedy, wife of a Boraki Councillor, during the night time when getting medicine tor a sick child, was attacked by a big carpet snake, which mounted the dresser. The woman’s screams brought her husband, who grabbed the reptile near the head, but it coiled itself round ids neck and ribs and he was almost strangled before his wife succeeded in cutting through the coils. The dissection discovered six China eggs and a silver fork in the stomach.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1914, Page 5
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100A Taste for Eggs. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1914, Page 5
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