The cacophony of country living heats up to a frenzy before the meditative snake charmer reappears to again place the audience under his spell.

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"While I'm taking a picture of all the chaos going on around us, one of these snake charmer guys came up and put his arm around me, and in his hand he has the head of a cobra, " Santelices, 35, remembers.

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The plaintive, almost straining bassoon solo in the opening still sounds like some new breed of snake charmer to me, oozing with clarinets while cajoling various creatures from their hiding places.

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The two farmers, identified as Hukkul Khan (a snake charmer) and Ramkul Ram, have not yet been apprehended.

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Given that Welsh politics are a snakepit, and Mr Davies a skilled snake-charmer, Mr Blair might still be toying with the idea of persuading him to stay on.

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