Notes from The Woodpecker's Stumpy Tail
(Woodpecker; Image from Pixabay)
- The woodpecker has a stumpy tail
- It used to be long like other birds, but a fish bit it off
- Here's how:
- The town often got several floods
- One time a huge flood was coming and only the frogs knew about it
- One of the frogs had hung around the people for awhile and learned to speak their language so he warned them about this huge flood that was about to come overtake everything
- The Indians began to laugh at the frog and the woodpecker joined in; the woodpecker stayed on his low branch and laughed with the Indians while all the other bride went to higher branches to avoid the flood
- That night the huge storm ended up coming that the frog tried to warn everyone about
- In the middle of the night the people got up and started climbing trees to get out of the flood as fast as they could
- The woodpecker could not fly in the rain or in the dark so he was stuck blindly flying from one tree to another trying to make his way above the water; unfortunately, this did not work because he had such a long tail that kept getting stuck in the water
- He then got his tail bit off by a fish passing through, and that is why woodpeckers have short tails that look like they have been bitten off!
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