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Life of a tortoise can be very discouraging! <b> ------------------------------------------------- "Hey Turtle!" "I'm not Turtle, I'm a Tortoise!" "Oh." <b> ------------------------------------------------- Every day this same thing repeat itself terribly! The poor Tortoise would go through the forest where everybody, every day greet him wrong! No one get his name right, not one! He stamp his feet on the ground and hide in his shell, screaming loud! Screaming loud words I cannot say! Because it would be bad, and because they are bad! Ohnoes. Birds call him "Turtle." Fish call him "Turtle." Even tiger that try to eat him still get his name wrong! How he not know his own dinner?! <b> "I'M NOT A TURTLE! I'M A TORTOISE!" The tortoise scream as loud as he can one day! He roar the words like lion! He roar louder and more angry than tiger! "You're a loud turtle..." A sleepy owl tell him. <b> "MHMPHHGRR!" The tortoise try to contain his anger inside his shell as it shake and bounce on the ground from all the rage! "No! That's it! I'm leaving! None of you appreciate me! I going back home to my parents where all the other tortoise are!" "I don't need this!" The tortoise huff and puff! He rattle in his shell and out pop his feet! He begin to shuffle slowly! All these animals making fun of him! Always making fun of him! He not deserve this! They rude to him because he tell them he not a turtle, but they argue! Grr! So he finally begin his journey home. All the way east to the shores! Slowly he shuffle, he shuffle two days! Two nights! Maybe three! Who's counting? It feel like time going so slow one day, then WOOSH! A hawk swoop down over his head, knocking him over onto his back. "I got you now, dinner!" The hawk declared loudly! "I'm NOT dinner! I'm a tortoise!" "You look like a turtle." <b> "WHAT." The tortoise shake so angrily from that... that again! He shake in his shell as it dance on the ground with angry rattling, bouncing up and hitting the hawk square in the beak! The hawk squawk in surprise and fly away! Next day... Roar! A giant mantis! "T'squee! Return turtle sssnack!" "No! I am NOT a turtle!" He barely get away when mantis hit his shell at funny angle, send him flying awaaay! Finally after so much trouble! So many days! And even more yelling... he is home! Home sweet home! The tortoise was so happy to see everybody, he greet his family, and he greet his brothers, his sisters. Mother, Father! Tortoises everywhere! He tell everybody all his stories, and the terrible life he have of everyone making fun of him... They all gather around to hear like real family! "Son, we have something we need to tell you..." Say the parents. "We adopted you..." <b> "You're a turtle." Kuururu | |