How the Turtle Got His Shell

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A long time ago the turtle had no shell. Turtle always wanted one because he wanted something to protect him from the predators that could easily gobble him up until nothing was left over but bones. Turtle had been badly injured many times when he was attacked by predators and he didn't want to be attacked again. So he set out to find the perfect shell. First he went to his favourite place: the pond. When he got there, the only thing he found was some water and some fish which he ate for a snack. Next he went to a bean farm and he asked the person that owned the farm. He said: is there anything I could use as a shell to protect me from predators? The person owned a store that sold stuff made from beans so he said: I don't have a shell but I do have bean masks. I could put two together for you to try on. Turtle nodded and tried it on but it didn't feel very comfortable so he walked away. After that he tried the beach. At the beach he found some rocks, seaweed and clam shells. He tried to make a shell out of them but after several hours of tying seaweed and putting on rocks and clam shells, when he put it on the whole shell fell apart. So he went to find another shell but the sun was setting so he decided to sleep for the night and continue searching tomorrow. That night it was raining so he had to find some shelter because his house was too far away and it was almost even too dark to find shelter but he was really lucky that night because right after he left the beach he found some shelter: a wooden house just the right size for a turtle. When he went in the house he found what he finds in his house, a kitchen, a bathroom, a living room, and a bedroom. After having a dinner of smoked salmon and eulachon oil he went to bed in the bedroom and when he slept he dreamed of a really big shell chasing him around a cliff and he accidentally fell off the cliff and fell on his

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