Yulia PuchkovaChapter 14
LUNCH FOR PYTHON
Slow looked at the python and said, "I think, the poor python is very hungry. Let's give it a piece of ham!»
"Oh, yes, a great idea!" cried the children.
"But how can we do that? It's very high in the tree!"
"I can climb up the tree and give it the food," said Fat.
"Can you?" asked the children. "You are very brave!" Fat was very proud. He put his foot on the grass, took a big piece of ham out of his sandwich and started climbing up the tree. But it was difficult to do it with the piece of ham in his hand. So Far said, "Take the ham and throw it back to me when I'm up." He climbed and climbed and climbed. Now he was high in the tree. But the python was on a thin branch, at the very end of it. So Far started climbing up that branch. Suddenly there was an awful noise and all the three of them fell down on the grass: the python, the branch and Fat.
"Are you OK?" asked Funny.
"Yes." said Fat. "I only hit my leg."
"All is well that ends well," said Clever. "The python is here and the ham is here. Now we can feed it easily." The python opened its eyes, smelled the ham, ate it up and closed its eyes again.
"What a nice python," said Slow. "It's so cute and quiet! I think, we should give it some water to drink."