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Snake song.

In fairyland there are no snakes all have been done away with by the fairies using fairy magic. Fairies know all about snakes many of which are harmless but there are snakes that have poison in their teeth. Others wrap themselves around their prey and squeeze them to death. Snakes are many coloured with wonderful patterns on their skins. Most snakes hiss when they are disturbed it is one way of warning any thing that gets too close. In America they have a snake that has a form of rattle on the end of its tail; these snakes are called rattlesnakes.

I can hear you asking why is he telling us about snakes? It is quite simple there lived a grumpy old wizard whose name was Mangolatoad. Mangolatoad with his grumpy voice was always annoying people. He would pass by a farm where no one had done him any harm and place a spell on the cows that were peacefully eating grass. This spell caused the cows to stop giving milk. This did not bother the grumpy old wizard he laughed and went on his way.

Another time as he was passing an infants school he cast another spell. This spell caused all of the children to cry. No one could stop them crying and their teachers had to send the children home. On another occasion as he was walking through the woods an owl opened its beak and let out a loud toowhit toowho noise. The grumpy old wizard Mangolatoad cast yet another spell and the poor owl was soon without feathers.

The owl hopped his way from tree to tree until he reached the home of the Fairy Queen. Queen Feeanna listened carefully to the owl’s story and decided to punish the grumpy old wizard Mangolatoad. With a wave of her magic wand the owl soon had new fresh feathers and was able to fly back to its favourite tree. Mangolatoad felt terrible it was as if he was carrying a huge stone on his bent shoulders. This punishment lasted a whole week.

Mangolatoad realised that it was the Fairy Queen Feeanna that had placed the heavy stone weight on his shoulders and decided to get revenge. Dressing himself in ordinary clothes with a cap on his head he walked back to Fairyland in his pockets he carried two snakes. He knew that snakes were banned in Fairyland and he let the two snakes out on to the ground. Snakes are warned by a signal if they crawl too near Fairyland and they turn around and go back the way they had come.

The two snakes that Mangolatoad had carried in his pockets stood or should I say danced on the end of their tails. From their mouths came a singing sound not the usual hissing but as if they were going to break into song any minute. This behaviour brought many fairies to watch what was happening. None of the fairies had seen a snake before just pictures that they were shown in their school days. The fairies kept their distance from the snakes many flew to a tree and watched the snakes from a good strong branch of an oak tree.

The singing noise the snakes made was heard a long distance away. Mangolatoad laughed and laughed, that he thought would teach the Fairy Queen not to mess with a powerful wizard. In the meantime Her Majesty heard the singing noise that the snakes were making and flew to the spot where they were dancing. Queen Feeanna waved her hand and the snakes stopped their singing. Speaking in the snake language, which sounded as if Her Majesty was hissing like a snake she asked the two snakes who was it that had brought them into Fairyland. On hearing from the two snakes that it was Mangolatoad., Her Majesty took her magic wand from her  dress she waved the wand a stream of sparks shot off in the direction of Mangolatoad. Mangolatoad turned into fifty small snakes. Later Her Majesty told me that Mangolatoad would remain as he is for one hundred years. Life as fifty snakes would teach him patience and turn him on to better life than his old grumpy life was.