COMPREHENSION: THE CAT AND THE TORTOISE

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Tortoise and Cat are very good friends. They pay visit to each other very often. One day, the Tortoise visit the Cat. He is given a very good meal. “Thank you Mr. Cat,” says Tortoise after eating much rice and drinking some wine. “Oh! You are welcome. What have I done to merit such a big thank you?” The cat says as he laughs. After this, Tortoise comes home and thinks very much about the tasty food he ate at the Cat’s house.


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While in his house, the Tortoise asks himself, “What will I do to eat good food everyday like the Cat?” He walks round every corner of his house many times without knowing what to do. After a long time, he comes out with a plan.
“Yes, I know what I will do. I will kill the Cat and take all his money, and use the money to buy good food,” says the Tortoise. “But how will I do it as the Cat is very powerful and can run at great speed?”

Tortoise makes up his mind and says, “I have an answer. The only way to kill the Cat is to poison him.”
So, the Tortoise decides that anytime the Cat visits him, he will poison the food which he will give him. One day, the Cat says, “for about one month I have not seen my friend, Tortoise. I must get ready and pay him a visit”. Not long, the Cat acts according to his plan. He pays the Tortoise a visit. They sit together to converse.

Tortoise, the owner of the house, says, “I am very happy to see you today after a long time, welcome. How are you? What do I offer you?”
“Oh! Tortoise, anything.” Says the Cat
“Alright, just a minute, let me find something for my dear friend”, says the Tortoise.

In a few minute, Tortoise is through with the meal, he has two kinds of meal; one is tea without poison and the other one is rice and stew with poison in it. He poisons the meal so that the Cat will die after eating it.
After finishing everything, the Tortoise invites the Cat to the table. Here is your best meal. Feel free and eat as much as you want. I do not feel like chewing anything. So I will only take some tea.” “Thanks,” says the Cat. The Cat eats the food happily. After some minutes, he says, “this food is very tasty but I feel some pains in my stomach. What is really wrong with me?” He falls down and shouts “my stomach, my stomach, oh! My st-o-m-a-ch-o-o-o!


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The death of the cat is a thing of joy to his friend, the Tortoise. He feels very happy and says. “Yes, I have done it, the Cat is dead, I can now take his money”.
After two days, Tortoise meets Ketty, the Cat’s son very early in the morning. “Good morning uncle Tortoise, welcome. How are you?” says Ketty. “Good morning my little child. I am not feeling fine at all.” The Tortoise says
“What is wrong, uncle?” Ketty asks. In answer, uncle Tortoise says, “your father, my friend, is very sick and is in the hospital. He says you should give me all his money so that he can pay the fat hospital bill.” “Uncle Tortoise, thank you for the news. I will give you the money very soon. Please wait for me,” says Ketty. Ketty runs to where his father’s money is. He takes everything in coins and notes, carrying some in his mouth and the rest with his two hands. As he appears, the Tortoise stands up and stretches out his two hands to collect the fat sum of money.

Tortoise packs the money into a bag and is getting ready to go. “Thank you Ketty and bye bye”, says the Tortoise. Tortoise is very happy and moves very fast with a very big bag of money got in a bad way.

On his way back, he hears a loud voice from the bush saying, “Halt, Tortoise, hand over what you have to me now. Be fast about it. Do you hear? Tortoise, your life or the money?” “Get that” (Gun shots), an armed robber shoots the Tortoise.
He drops the bag of money by force. He then tries to run just a short distance shouting and crying until he falls down. Before his death, he says, “Oh! My head! My head! I now know that, he who must destroy another in order to succeed, must also be destroyed at the post of his success. Whoever must kill in order to live will have death on guard at the door of his own life."



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