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Seven little pythons, late one day,
slipped from their eggshells and slithered away.
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“Ssss,” hissed the first snake. “Well, lucky me!
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Is that my dinner I see in that tree?�
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“Ssss,� hissed the second snake, tasting the air.
“Is that my dinner I see over there?”
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“Ssss,” hissed the third snake. “Yum, yum, yum.
Look out dinner, here I come.�
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“Ssss,” hissed the fourth snake. “It’s time for some tea.
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Is that my dinner waiting for me?�
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“Ssss,” hissed the fifth snake. “Well, that looks nice.
I’ll make a meal of two little mice.”
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“Ssss,” hissed the sixth snake, looking around.
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“I’ll catch my dinner without a sound.”
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“Ssss,� hissed the seventh snake, peering up a tree.
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“Those baby birds are food for me.”
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What seven snakes missed were six greedy eyes,
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staring down from the trees with delighted surprise.
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“Ha,” laughed the kookaburras. “Oh, yippee!
Snakes make the perfect supper for three!�
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“Ssss,” hissed the snakes. “Now we’d better go.
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We don’t want to be dinner ourselves, you know.� 23
So they slipped behind a rock, hidden away. Perhaps they’d try hunting another day.
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