CHAPTER 2

Incubation?
Part 7.
There was loud screaming and shrieking as young children and nuns ran away from the stairwell that led to the class rooms.


Russell and Pierre had been sitting on the high wall at the edge of the playground overlooking the valley. The were animal spotting. Thus far Pierre who was considered a farm boy, had spotted five different antelope in the valley savannah below them, and was busy explain the differences to Russell who had known only the city life and the convent.


“Snake! Snake!” some of the kids were yelling at the top of their voices as they ran into the playground.
Hearing these screams, Pierre immediately got up and started running towards the commotion, Russel caught by surprise took a while to follow Pierre.


As Pierre got to the stairwell, he found a puff adder curled up ready to strike in the corner between the classrooms wall and the stairwell.


Merle was a nature person. She firmly believed that everything in nature had its place and reason, even snakes. This respect for nature she had taught to Pierre on the farm. She had always told Pierre that a snake strikes out of fear and not malice. In this Pierre had a great regard for nature, and a knack for catching snakes even poisonous ones. This hissing puff adder, was not as large as the one Merle and Pierre had removed from Major’s henhouse together, but it would be the first one Pierre would be catching without Merle’s supervision.


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Good that he told his new friend about it.
I prefer to keep my distance now, where I live, there are many cases of snake bite and the saddest thing that there are no serum, therefore they have died helpless child.
Good post, it is very important to respect nature, it is very true I have had several anecdotes with snakes, I remember once in the field with my older brother and my younger sister, who were sitting, and my brother told me silence and don't move, when a rattlesnake brushed my leg and left.
snakes act always or most of the time in defense, it makes me funny that after all the discussions they end up slipping away .
Very good, One more day reading your interesting and beautiful story, wow I can see around here that there is a snake in the story this will get Hissing
It's funny, but from what I've been able to observe many times snakes can pass as discretion and not be noticed
Well, hahaha, curiously, I don't have much love for snakes to some extent they scare me, even so I enjoy reading
Good stories that you bring us today, that idea of believing that everything is for some reason is something that I too have as a thought
so it slowly becomes clear how tiny pierre has treated and that also makes the story exciting. Find this a great story
Great story! I am like Merle then because I firmly believe that everything in nature is here for a reason
Good story: snakes are not part of my favorite animals, in fact I am terrified of them, but I am struck by the way they are caught alive.
Here in Bali where I live we've got a lot of pythons. I won't try to catch them :) And slowly it is revealed how Tiny has been treating Pierre.
Snakes are the invisible enemy of pretty much anything that walks or crawls. Especially in Africa. During my work in Namibia - already forty years ago - I made a record leap backwards to avoid a tailed pufadder. Had he bit me, I was no longer in the land of... Show more
@Leo 1 Yes the most common bites are from the puff adders. They and the cobra also have the most predictable actions. Mostly in defense with a warning before. Mamba on the other hand, no warning, and the bite to human is not in defense, it likes to show why it must be feared.
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