I stamped my foot down hard at every step, the area was full of adders, at least it had been when I was growing up. Once Dad and I had encountered one only a few hundred meters from where I was walking now, it was spring, the snake had been stretched out on a stone slab in the sun. I must have been about ten. Dad went crazy, started throwing stones at it, I watched as they seemed to sink into the snake’s body as they struck, the adder tried to get away, it was hit again and again until it lay still beneath a pile of stones. But as we were about to walk on, out it wriggled again. Dad went
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Dad kills the adder.
