How Tortoise Defeated the Elephant and Hippopotamus.

Once upon a time, the Elephant and the hIppopotamus were very good friends and they did everything together. One day, as they were both eating, Mr. Tortoise appeared and challenged them--that even though they were both big, none of them could pull him out of the water or into the water with a strong piece of tie-tie.

He offered the Elephant ten thousand cowries and the Elephant, seeing that the Tortoise is very small, said, "If i cannot draw you out of the water, I will give you twenty thousand cowries." So the Tortoise took the tie-tie rope and went under the river.

When he got under the river, he tied the rope to a big rock, and the Elephant pulled with all his might until the rope snapped. The Tortoise, seeing what happened, quickly tied the rope to himself and came out of the river. He showed everyone that the rope was still tied to his leg, and that the elephant had failed. The Elephant paid the Tortoise twenty thousand cowries.

After some time, when Tortoise had almost finished spending his cowries, he went to Hippopotamus and made the same bet. But the Hippopotamus said, "I will take the water and you can take the land. I will pull you into the water." And Tortoise agreed.

As soon as Hippopotamus turned his back and headed towards the river, Tortoise tied the other end of the rope in his hands to a palm tree and hid behind it. Hippopotamus pulled with all his might until he got tired. He came out of the water blowing water everywhere from his nose. As soon as Tortoise saw this, he came out of his hiding place, tied the rope to his leg, and walked down towards Hippopotamus, saying, "You could not pull me into the river." Hippopotamus admitted that he lost the bet, and paid Tortoise twenty thousand cowries.

The Elephant and the Hippopotamus then decided to take Tortoise as their friend, because they both thought he was so strong. Tortoise then told them that he would like to live with both of them, but he could not be in two places at the same time. He said he would leave his son to live with Elephant on land, while he would live with Hippopotamus in the water.

This why there are two types of tortoise, the land tortoise and the water tortoise, and the land tortoise is smaller than the water tortoise.

The End.