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    The Tale of Timothy Turtle
    The Tale of Timothy Turtle
    The Tale of Timothy Turtle
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    The Tale of Timothy Turtle

    By Harry L. Smith and Arthur Scott Bailey

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    Release dateSep 1, 2007

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      The Tale of Timothy Turtle - Harry L. Smith

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      Title: The Tale of Timothy Turtle

      Author: Arthur Scott Bailey

      Illustrator: Harry L. Smith

      Release Date: May 5, 2007 [EBook #20716]

      [This file was first posted on March 1, 2007]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TALE OF TIMOTHY TURTLE ***

      Produced by Joe Longo and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      at http://www.pgdp.net

      THE TALE OF

      TIMOTHY TURTLE

      Timothy was going through the queerest motions.

      Copyright, 1919, by

      GROSSET & DUNLAP

      CONTENTS

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      THE TALE OF

      TIMOTHY TURTLE

      I

      A FAMOUS BITER

      That black rascal, Mr. Crow, was not the oldest dweller in Pleasant Valley. There was another elderly gentleman who had spent more summers—and a great many more winters—under the shadow of Blue Mountain than he.

      All the wild folk knew this person by the name of Timothy Turtle. And if they didn't see him so often as Mr. Crow it was because he spent much of his time on the muddy bottom of Black Creek. Besides, he never flapped his way through the air to Farmer Green's cornfield, in plain sight of everyone who happened to look up at the sky.

      On the contrary, Mr. Timothy Turtle seldom wandered far from the banks of the creek—for the best of reasons. He was anything but a fast walker. In fact, one might say that he waddled, or even crawled, rather than walked. But in the water he was quite a different creature. By means of his webbed feet he could swim as easily as Mr. Crow could fly. And he could stay at the bottom of Black Creek a surprisingly long time before he came up for a breath of air. Indeed, Mr. Crow sometimes remarked that he would be just as well pleased if Timothy Turtle buried himself in the mud beneath the water and never came up again!

      Such a speech was enough to show that Mr. Crow was not fond of Timothy Turtle. Perhaps Mr. Crow disliked to have a neighbor who was older than he. But Mr. Crow himself always laughed at such a suggestion.

      The trouble is—— he would say—"the trouble is, Timothy Turtle is too grumpy. Now, I'm old. But I claim that that's no reason why I shouldn't be pleasant." And then he would laugh—somewhat harshly—just to show that he knew how.

      There was a good deal of truth in what Mr. Crow said. Timothy Turtle was grumpy. But it was not old age that made him so. He had been like that all his life. There never was a time when he Wasn't snappish, when he wouldn't rather bite a body than not.

      And that was the reason why he had not more friends. To be sure, many people knew him. But usually they took good care not to get too near him.

      For Timothy Turtle had a most unpleasant way of shooting out his long neck from under his shell and seizing a person in his powerful jaws. In spite of his great age he was quick as

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