By John Gray
I am 74 and my first encounter with what I presume was an ant bite was in 1942 at Newcastle in NSW.
It was a warm Summer evening and I was lying on the lawn in the twilight when all the symptoms that I have become familiar with appeared.
Rushed into the local hospital I was kept under observation and the diagnosis was that “I had been bitten by a spider.”
The classic swelling and itching and the weal’s on my body are still a vivid memory after 60 years but I was fortunate not to experience them again until about ten years later when I moved to Tasmania and into the realm of a far more dangerous and aggressive creature.
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