COFFEE & BISCUITS

On a nice summer day, as most people in Sea Cove went down to the beach to enjoy the sunshine, a rattle snake in the mountains also decided to take an excursion away from the mountain shades to find warmer grounds.  Leisurely, it weaseled down the unfootprinted mountain paths, and before long found itself at the gate of Mr. Robinson’s garden.  Go in, sizzled the snake’s animal instincts.  It snuggled under the white fenced gate.   Viola! How correct is the voice:  there it is, in the middle of the garden, a caged rabbit. 

It was over in a matter of seconds.  Blackness fell, and the poor thing didn’t even know what ate him.  The snake had adroitly slid its slim and slimy body passed the bars into the cage, and engulped the rabbit right the way.  Unfortunate for the greedy predator though, it did not do what every mom would tell their kids:  chew!  With a wholesome rabbit in its body now, the snake was too fat to get out.

When Mr Robinson’s daughter, Eliza, opened the garden gate, she found a snake trapped between the bars of her rabbit cage.  The shape of rabbit ears could still be made out from the hump in the torso of the reptile.  Authorities were promptly notified, and the snake’s summer vacation was over when it deservedly arrived at the exhumanator.

This story was recount over and over in Sea Cove.  How brave Eliza was!  Eliza would tell everybody excitedly about this encounter, while her father….