Short Tales Of The Tortoise Cat
Tortoise Cat Walking The Big One
Tortoise Cat's first holiday road trip
posted Saturday, 27 December 2008
Tortoise Cat: I had to ride in one of those dangerous, menacing Big One contraptions FOREVER to get...HERE...wherever this is! WOW-meeOW! WHERE ARE WE? Chameleon! Oh ChaMeeeOW-leon...Are you here? Where IS here? Chameleon...!
Chameleon: SHHHHH! Here we are a many towns and territories to the West of our home coordinates, after 2 hours in a car which is just a new-fangled chariot.
Tortoise Cat: Who are all these Big Ones?
Chameleon: These Big Ones are your Big One's relatives. The tall lady Big One is your Big One's 'litter-mate' and the other tall one is her...Oh Cooter, you're not listening! Oh, Cooter, NO! Please get down from that kitchen counter!
Tortoise Cat: Wow, this place is wondrously huge, smelly, cluttered, and fascinating! What an interesting place this is! And all these Big Ones give me top-notch attention. Squirrels, chipmunks, and mice come right up to this giant window! How wonder-full. It is FUN here. But I want to go HOME now.
Chameleon: Your chariot awaits. But first we'll visit here a few nights. Then you're going to have to...Oh Cooter, pay attention! Cooter, get down from there!
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