A COBRA'S REVENGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2549, 10 November 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

A COBRA'S REVENGE.

Tiik Homeward Mail reports tho death of Mr Andrew Fischer, an employee of the Madras Railway-Company, at the Pennar "Bridge Works on the north-west line of railway, under most distressing circumstaneee. He was employed as a driver of bridge engines at the Pennar Works. While he was seated in the verandah of his bungalow he observed two large cobras on the barren plain immediately in front of tho house. Arming himself with a stout stick, he proceeded to the spot and encountered tho snakes. He succeeded in killing one of them, 'while the other, which had been slightly wounded, managed to escape. Mr Fischer hunted about for the runaway, but could not find it. He then returned to his bungalow and rested for some time, as he was off duty. Later in the day he prepared to go to his work, and with that object got out his clothes to dress. He sat on his coat, and was about to put on his shirt when he felt something bito him on the back. He turned round, and to his horror found a snake on tho cot behind him, which he is said to have recognised as the cobra he had wounded that morning. He immediately sought medical relief, and all kinds of remedies were applied, but to no effect, and he died in the evening , , leaving a widow and an infant child, for whom much sympathy is felt. " Kcllayan" writes to a Bombay paper : —" It is commonly believed among the Hindoos that no animal is more revengeful than the cobra, and that if an attempt is made to kill it and it escapes', it never gives itself rest until it has wreaked its vengeance upon its assailant."