The Snake and the Dunnart


A long time ago in the dreamtime, there lived a snake who had a very big appetite.

One day, he met the biggest wild animal of the world : the dunnart (a mouse). The snake had eyes bigger than his stomach because he was very greedy ! He wanted to eat the dunnart ! Given that the dunnart was very very shy, he ran away at top speed seeing the snake.

But suddenly, the dunnart fell on a thorny devil (a lizard with very pointed spikes), then just like that, he flew away like a balloon deflating.

The snake was really amazed ! The dunnart landed some metres farther ridiculously tiny. The snake approached the small animal and wanted to eat him ! But the dunnart ran very fast in a tiny mousehole where the snake couldn’t go.

Since then, all the dunnarts are extremely small !

Marina & Auriane

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