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Show THE SNAKE OF THE FOURTH FORM A BOY took an adder to school yesterday and left it on a master's desk. The adder, 10 inches long, bit 16 - year - old Barry Fletcher. Barrv was taken to Hospital. His p.and i swollen, but r.e is not ill. The snake was put on the de.-ic durine the lunch '.'.nerval at Wednesbury (Stalls p ""Hih School. Word Hashed round that an unknown snake was curled up on the toui'tn form master's di'Sk. Barry himself a fourth-former was asked to go inside and try to identify it. At his home in Birajingham-strcet, Willenhall, last night, the boy explained: 'UiJi Kxtn " The lads knew I had kept a snake as a pet once belore. They thought I would know how to handle it. As I picked it. up. I felt a sharp needle-like pncK in the palm of my ngnt hand. I immediately reported it. and I was sent to hospital. "One of the chaps must have put it on the desk for a lark. The master certainly did not know it was there. I believe one chap was trying to auction the snake in the quad, before it was taken indoors. Nobody had anv idea that i; was dangerous." |