Children Do Tell Lies

Children do tell Lies. The boys ran on meadow land, far from our town, when we came upon a snake that was sunning It self on a tiny rise…The snake hissed- they do and it is not a cliché- in panic we ran back to our bikes by the road. We discussed the happening and decided the snake was twelve feet long and had the head of a dragon. Silence, we thought the same, it may come looking for us, we jumped on our bikes and hurried away. At the dinner table- and since it was Sunday, we had meat cakes in brown gravy with boiled spuds and cabbage stew- I told mother that a big snake, twelve feet , and with the head of a dragon, had tried to eat me, showed her a scratch on my leg she didn´t answer only told me not to eat so fast.