Sparkie And The Snake
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I
was walking back to the cowshed with Jessica, after herding the cows into the
yard. I had Sparkie on a lead, and Jessica had Tess on a lead too. Jessica and me
were talking when Sparkie stopped to sniff a long, curved piece of rusty metal
or wire. I was about to kick it away when Sparkie suddenly jumped backwards,
pulling me a step back. I looked at the rusty wire, but I realized it wasn’t
wire after all – it was a snake! “A snake! Get back!” I yelled. Jessica sprang
back into a little ditch, pulling Tess with her. At the sound of my voice, the
snake took off away from us. Sparkie leapt backward again and pulled me into
the ditch. The snake went under an old trailer filled with rubbish. I have no
idea if the snake was venomous or not, but if I’d kicked it I might have found
out the hard way.