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COUNCILS AND RABBITS
The risks some men will take to help a fellow man in distress were fully demonstrated at Adelong recently, when Mr. August Eichorn offered to allow himself to be bitten by any snake the public liked to bring along, providing a fair collection would be contributed to assist M. Broadhurst who is crippled for life, the result of an accident at Burrenjuck some time ago.
Mr. Trude succeeded in bagging a monstrous black snake, one of the red-belly species, and Mr. Eichorn offered to wager fifty pound that the reptile would kill a rabbit immediately after it had bitten him. Needless to say there were no takers, as it is well known, and has been proved several times, that that species of snake will kill six or seven rabbits in succession.
The monster was unbagged and pu
