He reached down from a fissure in the earth-wall in the gloom
And trailed his yellow-brown slackness soft-bellied down, over
the edge of the stone trough
And rested his throat upon the stone bottom,
And where the water had dripped from the tap, in a small clearness,
He sipped with his straight mouth,
Softly drank through his straight gums, into his slack long body,
Silently.

Snake by D.H. Lawrence

These fingerless mittens are not for the faint-hearted! They’re knit in the round, include colourwork and the pattern is written for the more experienced knitter.

The colours I used were brown and yellow. However, you can go for neutral black and white, go for a glamourous green cobra or a fiery red king of the snakes.

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