SNAKE STORY

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 26, 13 January 1928, Page 15

SNAKE STORY

This story concerns a little boy named Guy Farmer, on a visit with his mother to a farm in the Zoutpansberg district of the Transvaal. He was playiny with his terrier when the deg was heard barking furiously. Guy’s mother ran out and saw a black snake, called a mamba, six feet long, swaying irom side to side as it approached. ‘The child stood fascinated, and the dog ran up and down between thei, evidertly auxious that the child should run away while there was time. Then the terrier sprang at the suake, and a sharp but short strug gle began. ‘The mother snatched rp her ‘boy and was rrnning to get a re volver when the barking ceased, the dog staggered a few paces and fell, and the snake came on again Putting the boy down, the mother was fortunately able to pin down the snake with a heavy boulder while she fetched the revolver to shoot it. Then she returned to where the terrier lay helpless It was still alive, but died in half an hour Its small master was inconsolable with gricf. A stone has been put over its grave recording low the gallant little creature gave its life.