Tortoise+and+the+Baboon

by: Ben H.
 * Tortoise and the Baboon**

One late afternoon when Tortoise was walking slowly towards his home, he ran across a baboon in his path. Baboon asked him, “Have you done well finding food today Tortoise?” The Tortoise replied to him, “No, I haven’t found much food at all.” The baboon waved his hand at the tortoise saying, “Come with me and we will have dinner together. When you get to my house the food will be ready for you.” Tortoise said, “Thank you, I will see you soon.” The Baboon smiled and pranced down the path that led to his house. Tortoise ran as fast as he could, for he was very hungry. Once he got there the baboon was in a tree waving down at him. Baboon yelled down, “Climb up here if you want some of my food! I have cooked fish and pork chops!” Tortoise politely asked him to bring the food down, for he could not climb up to get it. Baboon had known that and was playing a trick on Tortoise. He yelled back down at him saying, “Oh, I didn’t realize that you couldn’t get up. I will see you later then!” The tortoise trotted all the long way back to his home, very hungry and mad at Baboon. A few days later Tortoise sent an invitation to Baboon asking him to come over for dinner. When Baboon got there he was very dirty and Tortoise told him to go wash in the river before he could eat. When Baboon was on his way back from the river he stepped in a pool of mud, and when he got to the tortoise he said, “You are still dirty! You better hurry; I am almost out of food!” The baboon went back and washed again, but when he got back, he had walked in the same mud again and almost all of Tortoise’s food was gone. The next time he came back all muddy, Tortoise ate the last gulp of food saying, and “I told you!” The baboon realized he was being tricked and ran away realizing how mean he had been to the tortoise and what it felt like. Then Tortoise grinned and fell into a deep sleep.
 * By: Buzzy B.**

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One day a slow old tortoise was walking home. A baboon walked up to him and very kindly asked the tortoise if he had much to eat. The tortoise replied No I haven't had a thing. The baboon told him if you come home with me I will have a big feast prepared. The tortoise walked all the way to the baboon's house. It was an incredibly long walk for a really slow tortoise. Once the tortoise got to the baboon's house the baboon said oh your really late. The tortoise replied well I've gone all the way to your house hopefully you'll spare me a nice feast. Well I have loads of plates full of nice food, but if you want it you have to climb that tree to get it. A tortoise obviously cant climb a tree so he knew he couldn’t get it. The monkey taunted the poor old tortoise so much that the tortoise slowly took the long walk home. The tortoise really wanted to get that mean baboon back for tricking him. That night the tortoise secretly plotted to get the baboon back. The next day the baboon got a nice invitation to supper at the tortoise's house. The baboon thought that the tortoise had forgiven him and wanted to have a nice supper. Once the baboon arrived the tortoise said look at your dirty hands hasn't your mother taught you any manners, go down and wash in the creek, but you better hurry because we have already started eating. The Baboon did as he was told, walked back down to the creek, and washed off. But as he returned the tortoise noticed that his hands were still black so he told him to keep washing off until he was clean. But because there was dirt in front of the creek he could never get clean because he kept walking over the dirty spot. Once the baboon realized that he was being tricked he walked home as the turtle said now you have learned your lesson.======