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Ms Looselegs walked in. Every one knew Ms. Looselegs. She was married to the most famous frog in town.
She took off her coat and reached for a hanger. "Yeek!" she yelled. "That's not a hanger! That's a snake!"
"What are you doing?" said Slide to Slither.
"Just hanging around," Slither said.
"You're hiding. Pretending to be a coat hanger!" said Slide. "You're scared of Dr. Yankit!"
A cat came out of Dr. Yankit's room. He didn't look too happy. One arm looked bigger than the other. It was in a sling. Did Dr. Yankit do that! thought Slide. Slide looked over at Slither.
Slither . . . . Slither . . . .
Where was Slither? He wasn't standing in the room. Sitting in a chair. At the door. Or posing as a coat hanger.
Slide didn't see him anywhere. She looked and looked.
Ms. Looselegs reached down into the wooden rack for a magazine.
"Yeek!" she yelled. "There's a snake down there!"
"What are you doing?" said Slide to Slither.
"Just making myself at home," Slither said. "Getting comfy."
"In the magazine rack!" said Slide. "I know that old trick. Who are you kidding!?"
The nurse flapped her hand in the air. "Slither and Ms. Looselegs," she called. "Dr. Yankit is ready for you both."
Ms Looselegs stood up.
But Slither . . . . Slither . . . .
Where was Slither? The nurse didn't see him anywhere. Slide didn't see him anywhere. They looked and looked.
"Oh, don't forget your cane," said the nurse to Ms Looselegs.
"What cane?" said Ms Looselegs. "I don't have a cane."
"What are you doing, Slither?" said Slide. "Posing as a cane?"
"Just trying out a new look," Slither said.
"Get real!" said Slide. "A cane! Really, Slither, where's your snaky pride!"
Pride, thought Slither. What pride! Easy for Slide to talk about pride. Slide didn't have to see Dr. Yankit!
Ms Looselegs went into one room. Slither into another. He looked for a place to hide. Yeeks! Too late. Dr. Yankit was already in the room!
Slither sat on a tall table. The doctor's table.
"Ah ha!" said Dr. Yankit. He poked around Slither's snaky skin with a metal probe. Slither thought of biting. He was a snake after all.
"Well, lad," said Dr. Yankit. "Nothing for me to do here. He put his metal probe aside. "That itch you feel is a new skin coming. Under the old. The old skin will come off on its own."
True enough. In the next few days the old skin got looser. And looser. It got so loose Slither just slipped out of it. He had a brand new skin.
Slither stretched way out. Then sat in a big coil. Then hung from a tree branch. All to show off his new snaky, scaly skin. Oooo, he looked so good!
That same night Slither put his old skin under his pillow of crunchy oak leaves. Snake Skin fairies bring you sugar flies whenever you leave your old skin.
I won't give a single bite of my sugar flies to Slide, thought Slither. It's a matter of pride. I'll hide them And eat them all by myself. That's what she'd do, that slippy, slidey snake.
Slither felt bold. Brave. Bad. Back to his old self! A slithery snake in the grass! Ah yes!
Slither swished his snaky tail. And kept all his sugar flies to himself! Every bite!
The End
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