"Let's go over under that tree and
eat," she suggested, and soon they were sitting beneath a big pine tree,
where the ground was covered with the smooth, brown needles.
Flossie had taken only a few bites of her sandwich when she suddenly
jumped up and ran to Nan.
"Oh!" cried the little girl. "There's a snake! A snake!"
CHAPTER III
THE MERRY-GO-ROUND
Nan, though several years older than Flossie, was at first as much
frightened by the cry of "a snake!" as was her little sister. Though
Bert had often said only harmless snakes were in the woods around
Lakeport, Nan could not help jumping up with a scream and pulling
Flossie toward her.
"What's the matter?" asked Freddie, who had taken his sandwich a little
distance away to eat.
"A snake! I saw a big snake!" cried Flossie again.
"Where is it?" asked Nan, for, as yet, she had caught no sight of any
serpent.
"I--I almost sat on it," explained Flossie, clinging to Nan, and looking
down over her shoulder.
Nan glanced toward where her sister had been sitting just before the
alarm. She saw no wiggling snake crawling over the ground.
"Are you sure, Flossie?" Nan asked. "Are you sure you saw a snake?"
"Course I did. He almost put his head in my lap."
"Maybe he was hungry and wanted your sandwich," suggested Freddie. As he
spoke he stepped forward to look at the place Flossie had pointed to as
being the spot where she had seen the snake.
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