Africa folktale, a story my father told me.

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A long time ago when the whole animals lived together in unity, the lion rules over them all. There also was a sluggish and clever turtle.

He would sit in his home and watch the day pass by while others scratch the earth for food.

"How might I work under the sun with my smooth and lovely shell" he'd gloat to himself having as a top priority to get food from different animals.

It was the hour of harvest, so every animal had his store filled and didn't bother a lot of helping the poor apathetic turtle who approached for help.

Days passed by rapidly and steadily the dry season drew closer. This rising circumstance fuelled the animals to work more earnestly to store enough food to help them through the dry season yet our silly turtle didn't trouble.

He concocted a method to get food during the dry season and persistently sat tight for its execution.

.At last the dry season came yet little did the animals realize that Mr. Tortoise had plans to take their food in turns with a charm he got from a neighboring town.

His first objective was Mr. Antelope. In obscure hours of the night, Mr. Tortoise masked himself to be a beast with 3 heads and terrified the Antelope into giving him all his food.

At the point when he returned home, he healthily ate to fulfillment however he recalled the admonition of the charm producer. He was advised not to permit water to in contact with the charm for it will free its forces.

His assaults continued on the animals yet they couldn't imagine who was behind it becauseat each casualty had an alternate description of the beast. Some said he had 3 heads, some said he poured fire from his eyes and others gave an alternate clarification.

This turned into a serious matter that was taken to the King. As he was unable to think about an approach to stop this feared beast so he chose to call all animals for a meeting.

The King counseled the animals to be careful and arm themselves if there should arise an occurrence resulting in assaults.

He announces that anyone who is f0und as liable will be taken to the most elevated peak of the mountain and be pushed to tumble to the ground. to kick the bucket yet this didn't terrify Mr. Tortoise since he trusts in his charm to such an extent.

Days passed and the assault continued as nobody had the option on how to stop him and he was glowing robustly more than each creature in the realm and this made everybody dubious of him however they had no verification he was the one.

Consistently a house was struck by him and progressively the dry season getting out yet everybody was sitting right waiting for rain.

It was left only two animals Mr. Tortoise hasn't visited at this point so all the animals assembled a meeting among themselves and agreed to camp near these houses so they can slaughter this beast unequivocally yet Mr. Tortoise who was the subject of discussion couldn't go to the meeting.

That faithful night, the moon shun her light and the stars moved on the mists, an ideal night to strike a house.

Mr. Tortoise camouflaged himself to be a beast with 4 arms and set off to the place of Mr. Rabbit to take his food.

On his way, he saw the cloud changing and thundering yet he didn't appear to be troubled.

He arrived and broke into the house where the animals hid in wait for him. On seeing this the animal all ran out in troops to battle the beast.

He took the much he could and made a beeline for to escape the soldiers of animals surrounding him.

He thundered sending dread into them as he cleared his path through however he was unable to run quickly with the heap he was conveying.

Seeing this, the animals pursued him to ensure he doesn't getaway.

The environment was drained as thunder crash the skies sending waves of lightning over the suspicion shadows.

This was an indication that there would be a weighty cloudburst and this unexpectedly got .Mr. Tortoise terrified as he looked behind to view the soldiers pursuing him.

Not for long, beads of water tumbled from the sky, and in no time, the hefty storm started. It drenched the charm Mr. Tortoise wore and like a glint, the feared beast before the animals went to the little M.r Tortoise.

Everybody was stunned at the sight and in agreement they conveyed the tricky Tortoise directly to the ruler.

On observing this, the leader encouraged them to remember his pronouncement and instructed them to take Mr. Tortoise to the mountain peak and push him from that point to die.

They heeded their leader and when they got to the mountain top, Mr. Tortoise was pushed as requested and on his path tumbling down, he covered himself inside his smooth shell.

Kraaaa!!! He hit the ground with his shell broke in pieces, however, he endures the fall.

He took the sap from an elastic tree to gum his wrecked shells together and that was how Mr. Tortoise got the splits on his shell.

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good writing it ,check my post

A long time ago when the whole animals lived together in unity, the lion rules over them all. There also was a sluggish and clever turtle.

He would sit in his home and watch the day pass by while others scratch the earth for food.

"How might I work under the sun with my smooth and lovely shell" he'd gloat to himself having as a top priority to get food from different animals.

It was the hour of harvest, so every animal had his store filled and didn't bother a lot of helping the poor apathetic turtle who approached for help.

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You just copied a whole lot from my article and paste it as a comment? Hmmm

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