Strange Noises from a Tree Stump: Uncle Heard It at Dawn, Climbed the Tree to Look, and Was So Frightened His Legs Went Numb, Frozen Stiff
Uncle heard strange noises from a tree stump at dawn, climbed the tree to look, and was so frightened his legs went numb, frozen stiff.
After hearing Uncle tell this story, even I felt a bit scared. Although this kind of animal is also afraid of people, it is still a cold-blooded animal, and when luck is bad, you really fear it might hurt someone. What exactly happened here?
It was on Friday of the previous week, and the weather was very nice. Uncle got up at dawn and heard crows cawing and circling noisily on a large chestnut tree beside the house, and there were also strange noises. Curious Uncle, wanting to find out what was going on, hurriedly put on his shoes, came to the chestnut tree, and once he was ready, began to climb. Since this was a withered chestnut tree, bits of wood would occasionally fall from it. So Uncle was rather careful and cautious.
When he had climbed halfway, he looked up and was instantly so frightened that his legs trembled. A striped keelback snake was coiling on a fork of the tree, enjoying a delicious meal. Take a look: there was a hole in the dry fork of the tree, and inside it two eggs could clearly be seen. He hurriedly climbed down and came back to tell everyone about it, and only then did he learn that two days earlier, an owl had been living in the big tree, so this was obviously the owl incubating its eggs there. Owls are protected animals of the state.
In order to stop the snake from doing as it pleased and sneaking the eggs while the owl was away, Uncle decided to drive the snake away. So he found a very long bamboo pole and drove the snake off. At the same time, to keep the striped keelback snake from succeeding in another sneak attack, Uncle found some paint and painted the main trunk of the chestnut tree with it. Because paint has a foul smell, once the snake smells the foul odor it will not come again.
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