Short Tales Of The Tortoise Cat

Tortoise Cat Walking The Big One

Walking the Big One

Tortoise Cat's first holiday road trip

posted Saturday, 27 December 2008
Tortoise cat walking on a kitchen counter

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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