Tylop’s Fable

One beautiful summer’s day Mr. and Mrs. Painted-Turtle were all ready for their first vacation and everything was going swell. “You made sure you packed our passports right Mr. Painted-Turtle?” said Mrs. Painted-Turtle frantically. “Yes, I got them.” Responded Mr. Painted-Turtle. Mrs. Painted-Turtle was asking questions the whole way to the Great Lakes. The Great lakes are precious though and were guarded by the Silver back Gorillas. The Silver back gorillas are very territorial and protective of their land so they toughly inspect everyone who tries to come to the land of the great lakes. When Mr. and Mrs. Painted-Turtle got to the boarder the big silver back gorilla asked them a bunch of questions that they had all the answers too and the silver back gorilla seemed impressed but he had one final question. He asked Mr. and Mrs. Painted-Turtle to remove their shell so he could inspect it. Both Mr. and Mrs. Painted-Turtle looked at each other jaws wide open and said “We are Turtles! Taking off our shells will kill us! We can’t hide anything in our shells, we will not remove them!” the Silver back Gorilla said “Then you cannot enter the Land of the Great Lakes!”  Mr. and Mrs. Painted-Turtle got really mad and used their hard shells to knock the Silver back Gorilla out and they entered the Land of the Great Lakes for their vacation.