My Private Wobegon
stories from home
Girl Scout Gets StuckBy Everet Ella Smith
One day, while I was walking with my Mom and my baby brother, I found a green snake, and I took it home. I named her Girl Scout, because she was green like a Girl Scout uniform.
I needed a place to keep her, so I used a glass terrarium that I already had. I had gotten the terrarium from the Sandhills Area Land Trust yard sale. I had my worm snake in the terrarium when I put Girl Scout into the terrarium, which I cleaned before I put my snakes in. Dad and I got some twigs and branches to put in the terrarium, so Girl Scout could have something to slither and climb on.
I had to put a screen over the top, because I didn't have a top and Girl Scout was long enough to get out. My mom and I used duct tape to hold down the screen.
But that very night Girl Scout tried to escape. Then the next morning I saw my snake and shouted, "Mom, Dad there is a major problemo."
Girl Scout had gotten stuck on the duct tape, and Mom and Dad came running. She didn't like being curled up in a ball with duct tape. She looked like a green pretzel, and she was stressed out.
Mom and Dad got some scissors and cut some of the tape off. Dad called a veterinarian. While I was at school, Mom and Dad got the rest of the duct tape off with olive oil. The next day we let her go.
Everet Ella SmithMy name is Everet Ella Smith. I am seven years old. I live in a log cabin in the woods in Southern Pines, North Carolina. I am in the first grade and I like snakes and salamanders. My mom is a landscape architect. She often brings living things home that she finds when she is working. Usually duct tape helps fix things, but in this case, it got my snake in a "fix!" I hope you will enjoy my adventure with duct tape!
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