Aesop's Fables: The Woodman and the Snake
One winter day a Woodman was comming home from his
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when he saw something black lying on the
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. When he came closer he saw it was a S
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to all appearance dead. But he took it up and put it in his
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to warm while he hurried home. As soon as he got indoors he put the Snake down on the hearth before the
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.
The
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watched it and saw it slowly come to life again. Then one of them try to touch it, but the Snake raised its
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and put out its fangs and was about to sting the child to death. So the Woodman seized his axe, and with one stroke
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the Serpent in two. "Ah," said he,
"No gratitude from the wicked."