Try to rewrite the story without its humour, merely as a frightening incident.What details or parts of the story would you leave out?
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The snake and the mirror is a humourous story of a homeopath doctor. The following parts of the story needs to be taken out. Doctor's self admiration and looking at mirror constantly. His stupid marriage plan to marry a rich and fat doctor so that he can lead rest of his life without hardwork. Snake leaving doctor and admiring its own image in the mirror. Description of the dirty vest left by the thief who stole everything else.
As the tired doctor returned to his home after a hard day of work in the hot summer night, he heard some strange noise a number of times not of the rats with which he was familiar to.
It was a different noise.
As he sat on his table thinking of the noise a snake coiled up his chair and was almost at a range to bite him.
This made the doctor cold with fright.