Show STICK WAS BIG blacksnake writer tells tell of f Ws narrow etcar from the deadly reptile of the tha australian bush the the blacke blacksnake nake la is the danger of 0 thoi the australian bush and a deadly reptile he la Is whose bite will kill any ono one in about tight minutes yet notwithstanding all aft the warnings I 1 was waa given 1 I could remember to be on the lookout for snakes nor to avoid doing such ruch foolish things as sitting on old dead tree trunks which lire bre their favorite hiding places 1 had just ut bred two barrels at a rabbit when just in front ot of me I 1 saw a long gnarled black stick a charred branch of a dead gum as aa I 1 thought another moment I 1 should carelessly have stepped either across or on it when one of the ladles ladies ot of the party who was waa walking with us seized my arm and nd pulled me out in a voice of terror take wa caro its a snake roused housed by her voice my stick woke up and a long blaak snake wriggled away in front of fit us ila hole the snake had got to its ita bole but my rescuer gallantly belabored it with her stick while my other comp companion anlon rushed up and blow the tall off at a shot then one ot of the men dashed away for a spade with which it was dug out when we loosed both our 20 bores to make sure of killing it it was a big snake and measured well over three feet we were far more pleased with our one blacksnake than it if we had shot a hundred rabbits westminster gazette |