Barnaby's snake was gone. His pet had disappeared 1 night and never come back. Barnaby was always happy and smiling before. But now he was always grumpy and if someone tried to cheer him up he would just tell them to go away. But the snake he had lost had also disappeared with Barnaby's unused guitar. The snake dragged it across the ground and then threw it onto a neighbouring island and it somehow landed exactly vertical in some wet tarmac. It was only 20 years later that Barnaby saw his old guitar that was now stuck in the ground.