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Stories and Story-Telling

by Angela M. Keyes

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How the Turtle Got His Dinner

It was the small black turtle’s dinner time. He drew in his head and watched. A bluebottle buzzed by, singing. Snap! out came the turtle’s head. The bluebottle’s song was over, the turtle was eating him for dinner.

“A bluebottle is a delicious morsel,” said the turtle aloud to anyone who might happen to be passing.

He dined that day on foolish bluebottles who didn’t know he had a head.

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