It was almost time to go back and cook lunch, so she hurried home with her back basket filled with various sizes of fish.
As she went down the mountain along the forest path, she looked up and saw a bird's nest in a tree on the right slope.
A poisonous snake, as thick as two fingers, was slithering up the tree trunk. Any ordinary person would have kept their distance.
She threw her hatchet with the sharp side out, and the blade accurately severed the snake's head, with the snake's body and head falling down the tree trunk and onto the slope. The snakehead stopped moving.
The snake's body curved and rolled down the slope, landing on the path in front of her.
She picked up her hatchet, squatted down, took off her back basket and placed it on the path, then chopped off the snake's tail, removed its internal organs, and peeled off its skin. She wrapped the snake meat pieces in a large tree leaf and put them in her basket filled with fish.
