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**below is one of many variations to this lesson...
Once upon a time there was a serpent who was badly injured in a fight with another animal. It managed to slither away to safety but would have surely died if a benevolent man had not seen it suffering by the side of the road. The goodly man carefully wrapped the snake up and took it to his house, where he bestowed the kindest and gentlest care on the snake until it was healed and could return to the wild. Just as the man was releasing the serpent back into the grass, the ungrateful snake turned and bit him on the hand.
"What did you do that for?" cried the man, who knew that the bite of this particular snake was usually fatal. "Didn't I take care of you when no one else would?"
The snake shrugged (no small feat for a snake!) and replied to the benevolent--and now doomed-- man, "What did you expect? You knew I was a snake when you picked me up."
Once upon a time there was a serpent who was badly injured in a fight with another animal. It managed to slither away to safety but would have surely died if a benevolent man had not seen it suffering by the side of the road. The goodly man carefully wrapped the snake up and took it to his house, where he bestowed the kindest and gentlest care on the snake until it was healed and could return to the wild. Just as the man was releasing the serpent back into the grass, the ungrateful snake turned and bit him on the hand.
"What did you do that for?" cried the man, who knew that the bite of this particular snake was usually fatal. "Didn't I take care of you when no one else would?"
The snake shrugged (no small feat for a snake!) and replied to the benevolent--and now doomed-- man, "What did you expect? You knew I was a snake when you picked me up."
deleted_user
I liked that one!
deleted_user
The wicked snakes are lurking.
deleted_user
Hell, I have married people like this!! LOL
deleted_user
I think I divorced that one.
deleted_user
I loved that so much that I put it on my Myspace profile page...thanks!!!
deleted_user
sounds like my ex boyfriend (the snake)
starfish
Sometimes the obvious stares you right in the face, and you don't see it until it is too late. Never look at a snake in the eye.
BeckyK
That's a great one!
deleted_user
it's good, yeah. have you heard of the one with the scorpion and the frog?
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