The Countryman and the Snare
A Countryman returning home one Winter's day, found a Snake by
the hedge-side, half dead with cold. Taking compassion on the
creature, he laid it in his bosom and brought it home to his fire-side
to revive it. No sooner had the warmth restored it, than it began
to attack the children of the cottage. Upon this the Countryman,
whose compassion had saved its life, took up a club and laid the
Snake dead at his feet.