CHAPTER III. 
THE RING SNAKE—Continued. 
THE PLAGUE OF SNAKES AT LLANELLY. 
NEWSPAPER REPORTS—FACTS OF CASE—DESCRIPTION OF 
LOCALITY —-EXPLANATION OF OCCURRENCE, 
Tuat a dwelling-house in this country should be 
visited with a plague of serpents seems like a wild 
romance, and no doubt many people who read the 
following paragraph (or a similar one) in the daily 
papers of September 1900 mentally gave the reporters 
credit for somewhat lively imaginations :— 
“The residents of a house at Cefncaeau, near 
Lanelly, are suffering from a plague of snakes. The 
reptiles are of all sizes and colours, and they crawl 
over the floors, infest the cupboards, and curl them- 
selves up on the furniture, and even luxuriate in the 
bedrooms. No fewer than twenty-two snakes were 
slaughtered in one day.’— Morning Leader, September 
1900. 
