One day, a pale cat named Sam went for a walk. He saw a big tree and thought it would be a nice place to rest. As he lay under the tree, a little bird flew down and sat on a branch.
"Hi, Sam!" said the bird. "What are you doing?"
Sam replied, "I'm resting. I'm very tired."
As they talked, Sam noticed a long stick on the ground. He thought it would be fun to measure how tall the tree was. He stood up and started to measure the tree with the stick. But suddenly, the stick moved!
To Sam's surprise, the stick was not a stick at all. It was a long, thin snake! The snake looked at Sam and said, "Hello, I'm not a stick. I'm a snake!"
Sam and the bird laughed. They had found a new friend in the snake, and they all spent the day playing together under the big tree.
