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Nature has Its Own Ways to Act:

Scene One:

A traveler was walking through a jungle (forest).  There were thick trees all around casting a cool shadow in the heat of summer.  He was tired and wanted to rest.  He lied down under a tree.  Soon after the cool shadow and the breeze lullabied him to fall in deep calm sleep. 

While the man was in deep and calm sleep there was a slithering movement in a hole near the tree, and there came a venomous snake out of the hole.  The snake saw the man it’s natural enemy.  It raised and was ready to strike the man with its deadly fangs.

Scene Two:

At the very moment when the man of our story was lying under the tree and the snake was ready to bite him, on the other side of the river nearby a scorpion was moving very fast toward the river and jumped on the back of a turtle, which was about to move into the water. 

The turtle swam on the other side of the river.  When it got near the bank of the river the scorpion jumped off its back and moved fast towards where the man was lying asleep and the snake was ready to strike.

The scorpion got near the man and bit him in his leg.  The pinch of the bite steered the man awake.  He saw the snake close to him.  He instantly picked his stick lying near him and hit on the head of the snake dropping it dead in just one blow.

The man looked at the running away scorpion with thankful tears in his eyes murmured looking up to the sky, “you really have your own ways to act, thanks.”