Poor Snake

Long time ago, the snake used to have four legs. He could walk just like other animals. One day, the snake saw a frog, a mouse and a chicken were playing under a tree. As he was free, so he joined them.

After playing for few hours, they all felt thirsty and hungry. So they decided to go find something to drink and eat.

"Watermelon!" shouted the mouse.

They all agreed to go find watermelons to eat. They came to a farm with lots of watermelons and started to eat.

The owner of the farm saw these four animals eating his watermelons in his farm. He was angry with them and decided to do something. He put some traps in the farm after the animals were gone.

The next day, the animals came back to eat watermelons again. Unfortunately, they were all trapped by the farmer.

"Please don't kill us. Please let us go," begged the animals.

"I can let you all go. But I'm going to cut one of your legs for the punishment of stealing my watermelons," said the farmer.

"Wait! Give us some time to discuss," said the frog.

"I heard that there is a doctor in the jugle that can fix the cut leg back to the body. But we need to be there within an hour before our legs get broken," said the mouse.

"But if one of our legs is cut, I'm sure we can't get to doctor within one hour as we can't walk properly anymore," said the chicken.

"Snake, why don't you let the farmer cut your legs first. We will help to carry you and your legs to rush to the doctor," suggested the frog.

Finally they came to an agreement that the snake would represent all the animals for the punishment, and they would bring the snake to the doctor. So the farmer cut the snake's four legs. The frog, the mouse and the chicken carried the snake into the jungle to find the doctor. However, they couldn't find the doctor! They then abandoned the snake in the jungle and went home.

Since then, the snake had to crawl with his body.

Until today, the snake still remembers how he was being abandoned, and will eat the frog, the mouse and the chicken whenever he sees them.