COMPREHENSION: THE TRICKY TORTOISE

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Tortoise was fed up with elephant and Hippo. They were mean and arrogant. They always laughed at Tortoise because he was weak and small.

One day Tortoise decided to play a trick on them.
One evening Tortoise went to Elephant’s home. Elephant was eating and Tortoise asked for something to eat. Elephant looked at Tortoise. “You’re too small and too weak to share my food,” he said.
“I’m stronger than you and I can prove it,” replied Tortoise. “Let’s have a tug-of-war to show which animal is stronger.”

As soon as Elephant heard this he started laughing loudly. But when he saw Tortoise’s serious face, he realized Tortoise wasn’t joking. He agreed to the contest immediately. So Tortoise tied one end of strong rope around Elephant’s neck. He told Elephant to wait until he called “pull”. Then Tortoise ran into the forest with the other end of the rope. Soon he arrived where Hippo lived. Hippo was having a bath in the river.

Tortoise said, “I’m going to show you that I’m stronger than you. We’re going to have a tug-of-war.” Hippo was very angry so he got out of the water immediately.
After he tied the second end of the rope around Hippo’s neck, Tortoise ran into the forest again and hid. Then he shouted, “Pull!”

Both Elephant and Hippo pulled hard. At first Elephant was stronger but then he got tired and Hippo started to win. And then Hippo got tired so Elephant began to win again.

This went on for many hours. Tortoise watched the animals and laughed. When night came, Tortoise was tired because he was laughing so much. Before he went home, Tortoise cut the rope in the middle. Both animals fell flat on their faces.
Tortoise went home happy with the sweet thought that intelligence is better than strength

QUESTIONS:
How did Tortoise feel about Elephant and Hippo? Why?
What did Elephant think of Tortoise challenge?
Do you ever have tug-of-war contest?
Why was Hippo angry?
What did Tortoise do when he got into the forest?
How did Tortoise end the contest?
What happened to Elephant and Hippo?
What did Tortoise prove with his trick?