Hawthorne

             "The Child and his Parishioner"
             Vibrant lights were shining from the heavens on one particularly exciting spring
             afternoon, as four enchanting boys galloped swiftly towards home. School was
             everlasting that day and the boys had a craving for something to drink. The hard, pelting
             rain from the night before had caused scattered puddles of crystal clear water to form in
             certain areas. The boys, afraid of drinking straight from the puddle, made brilliant paper
             cups out of the glossy sheets of paper from their spelling books. One of the boys, an
             outcast that was seemingly different from the others, decided he would drink straight
             from the glowing puddle, rather than waste a precious sheet of his spelling text.
             And so this precarious boy defied the others.
             He laid his puckered lips to the cool temperature of the water and began to suck
             the water into his mouth. The water, with its reflection ability, showed the face of the
             young boy as he was fulfilling his rather overdue thirst.
             The others had a specific purpose in making their drinking cups; so they could see
             what swam in the water they were swallowing. Snakes, were what the boys knew were
             swimming and slithering throughout the relaxing water.
             The defiant boy was still slurping aggressively at the thirst quenching water when
             something slithered into his mouth. He noticed the tail end of something twitch as it was
             entering the realms of the unknown. He tried to stop the creature from entering into his
             feeble body but it was too late. The snake had forced its way into his water filled mouth
             and the child had swallowed the spawn of an evil creature.
             As the stood back up and faced the reality of what had just happened, he was
             confronted by the other boys. "Hey, you just swallowed a snake, did you not?"
             The young lad was embarrassed as the other boys began to taunt him about his
             unfortunate error. They teased hi...

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