Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-09-27
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.fARY TALE 81
6Yl1ARY GRAIIAl1 BONNER
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rHE cosRA,s ADVICE.

didn't know really that he was his son
for he didn't care about his family
and Such things. But he saw another
snake like himself and he said,
DO you know who is your worst
enemy?"
NO" said young Cobra.
"TlI tell YOU" said old Cobra.
DO, it win help me in my wriggling,
crawling, squirming adventures"
ut will help you," said old Cobra.
"Tell it to me before 60 to Sleep"
said young Cobra. 81 am sleepy"
Il am sleepy, too, said old Cobra,
so will want to tell the story be-
fore l go off to sleep myself"
They each Missed for few mo-
ments and then the old Cobra began
his story.
Il will call my story, old Cobra's
Advice to Young Cobra"
Sounds like a good story" said
young Cobra. You could have tofd,
if you had seen the young Cobra, that
he wasn't the kind of a creature to
be interested in a fairy story.
India, as you know is our home,"
he began. 1--WE do a great deal of
harm. OF that am proud. They say
that we cause the loss of thousands
of people every year. A noble record
for the Cobra family"
II don't suppose the people think it
is such a noble record" said young
Cobra.
Don't be a gentle young thing and
disgrace the family" said old Cobra.
There has never been any disgrace
to the family name and you mustn't
commence such a thing. Do you hear
me?" Missed old Cobra.
Gracious" said young Cobra, 81
won't. l was only thinking what a
joke it was on the family, and how
glad was to think that there was
something we did which they couldn't
call noble and we were SO noble that
we didn't mind"
That's the way to talk" Kissed old
Cobra.
"But we have an enemy, a terrible,
terrible, enemy. Many stories have
been written about him and his name
is the Mongoose.
''He is little animal. His size can
be compared to that of ferrets and
he is supposed to be a cousin of that
family. He is the one you are to
watch out for"
Tell me. how I am to do It," said
young Cobsh. III want to be able to
protect myself from enemies"
"Of course you do. That's a good
natural wish" said old Cobra.
"The mongoose is a mean little
creature, he will jump and hurry about
a poor snake, getting snake all mixed
up and quite dizzy.
1.-THE mean little fellow won't get
dizzy himself No, he will only make
the nice Cobra dizzy.
"Then he will spring at the Cobra"
"Oh, Oh" Kissed the young Cobra.
Eyes, he will spring at the Cobra"
angrily nissed old Cobra, "and he viii
put his mean contemplate, horrid,
sharp little teeth into the spine of a
fine Cobra snake. He will go for a
Cobra's beautiful snake throat. He
will escape, like the mean little crea-
ture he is, because he is so quick.
"People say they like the mongoose
because they say he destroys and
kills us"
"Well, of all the rude things" said
young Cobra ::'What a thing for peo-
pie TO say"
"Well, of course we don't like peO-
pie" said old Cobra.
mo, we're fair about that. We're
not hypocrites, or anything like that"
said young Cobra. ''NVe hate the mon
goose and he hates us. That is the
truth, most assuredly. And we hate
people and they hate us"
cit seems strange that we can't have
everything entirely our own way, when
we're the great, and famous Cobra |
said old Cobra. but as we
can't, remember my advice, and keep
out of the way of that mean little
mongoose fellow with his horrible lit
tie teeth, which aren't nearly as little
as they should be-"