A sneaky snake kept sneaking into the chicken coop and stealing the eggs. Someone suggested putting a marble egg in there so the snake would eat it, and being unable to digest it, the snake would die. But the snake just kept eating the actual eggs. After chasing it away once, Dad decided that the next time we got the snake, we would relocate it up the road.
The girls dashed into the house and said the snake was back. So we went out to capture. It was a mighty battle. Marian was armed with a net (that had a snake sized hole in it) and I had a big stick. Neither was very effective. I finally had to grab his back end while Marian hooked the front and we managed to steer the snake into a cooler.
Yes, a cooler. It was the only thing around with a lid we could close! Then we had to wait an hour or two for Dad to return and take the snake away. The victorious children rode out with him to dump the snake a few miles up the road.
Once they returned triumphant, they realized something.....
See the snake? It was a fairly sizable snake.
See that bulge in his middle? Yep, it ate the marble egg and was going to die anyway.
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