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Subject: Mrs. Snake -father goosie-
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Date: Fri, 24-May-85 12:54:48 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 24 12:54:48 1985
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Once upon a time Mrs. Snake's children were playing in their cave.  They
were hissing and hissing and having a grand time.  Mrs. Snake had a
terrible headache and told her children that she was going to lie down
in her bed for awhile and asked them to play quietly.  Mrs. Snake's
children were good little snakes and they promised to be quiet.  So, they
hissed and hissed and played quietly for awhile.  But, as all children
are apt to do, their hissing and hissing got louder and louder and 
Mrs. Snake could not get to sleep and her headache got worse and worse.
Mrs. Snake crawled out of bed, went to her children, and told them their
hissing and hissing was much too loud.  She asked them to go outside to
hiss and hiss in the pit in front of their cave - and to hiss and hiss
in the pit quietly, so she could get some rest and get over the headache.
Being good little snakes they crawled into the pit and hissed and hissed
quietly - for awhile.  But, children being children, the hissing and
hissing in the pit got louder and louder and Mrs. Snake could not get
to sleep nor get over her headache.  Mrs. Snake came outside to the pit
where the children were hissing and hissing and told them their hissing
and hissing in the pit was much too loud.  She told them that she wanted
them to go next door to Mrs. Pott's pit and ask her if they could hiss
in her pit until the headache was gone.  So, the little snakes went to
Mrs. Pott's pit and hissed and hissed until Mrs. Pott came to the pit
to see what all of the hissing was about.  When she saw all of 
Mrs. Snake's children hissing and hissing in her pit, she was a bit
annoyed and asked them why they were hissing and hissing in her pit
when they had a perfectly good pit of their own to hiss in.  And the
children told her that their mother had a headache and wanted to know
if it would be all right for them to hiss in Mrs. Pott's pit for awhile.
Mrs. Pott said it would NOT be all right and they should go hiss and hiss
in their own pit.  So, the little snakes went back to hiss and hiss in
their own pit - but, very quietly.  And, after awhile their hissing
and hissing in their pit got louder and louder and woke their mother.
Mrs. Snake came to the pit to find her children hissing and hissing in
their pit and asked them why they were hissing and hissing in their pit
when she had asked them to go next door to hiss and hiss in Mrs. Pott's
pit so she could get some rest and get over her headache.  The children
told their mother they had gone next door to hiss and hiss in Mrs. Pott's
pit but she told them they could NOT  hiss and hiss in her pit since they
had a perfectly good pit of their own to hiss and hiss in.  And
Mrs. Snake said, "Why the nerve of Mrs. Pott.  I can remember when
Mrs. Pott didn't have a pit to hiss in."