carpet-snake

The carpet-snake is occasionally kept in the house or in the barn to destroy mice and other small vermin.

Peeps At Many Lands: Australia Frank Fox 1917

Some of the non-venomous snakes of Australia are very handsome, the green tree-snake and the carpet-snake (a species of python) for examples.

Peeps At Many Lands: Australia Frank Fox 1917

As Norman ran into the kitchen, he stopped short and pointed the gun, for right in the middle of the floor, writhing about in a way that might easily have been mistaken for menace, was a large carpet-snake.

The Dingo Boys The Squatters of Wallaby Range George Manville Fenn 1870

The grubs were tempting, but the carpet-snake was not; so Shanter had it all to himself, eating till Rifle laughed, and said that he must be like india-rubber, else he could never have held so much.

The Dingo Boys The Squatters of Wallaby Range George Manville Fenn 1870

Now it would be down some lovely creek, overhung by wide-spreading ferns, in search of fish; now to hunt out and slay dangerous serpents, or capture the carpet-snake, which the black looked upon as a delicacy.

The Dingo Boys The Squatters of Wallaby Range George Manville Fenn 1870

The most common with us were the brown, black, and whip snakes, and the death-adder, all poisonous; and the carpet-snake, harmless.

Australian Search Party Charles Henry Eden 1858

a fine kangaroo, and a carpet-snake over nine feet in length.

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885