SELIGOR'S CASTLE HAS A TALE ABOUT A GUINEA-PIG
By Stephen Southwold
Forty More Tales
Alas there isn't a picture for this tale, this one is on page 218.
Did you know that Guinea Pigs love to have a friend, then even like being in a group
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A TALE OF A TAIL
"Why have guinea-pigs no tails?" I asked my pet guinea-pig.
"Don't you know that?" he replied; "listen and I'll tell you.
"Well," he began, "long, long. long ago, all guinea pigs had tails, and they all lived together, every one of them. They were the happiest creatures in the wide world until one day a great dragon came rushing and roaring down upon them and bellowed, 'I'm going to eat you all up.'
"Oh, please don't,' they all cried very piteously.'
"Well," said the great dragon, tell me a funny tale and I'll let you off for tonight."
Now one of the guinea pigs was a great teller of funny tales, and he told one of his best to the dragon, and when he heard it the dragon laughed with such a great breath that he blew the tops off seven mountains. And then he went off to his den to sleep."
" However the next morning he returned to where the guinea-pigs wereand vowed to eat them all up again, but the teller of tales told him another funny tales, and tis time his laughter blew seven stars down from the sky into the sea."
Now this went on for a long, long while, and each night the teller of talessaved the lives of himself and all the other guinea-pigs. But then tragedy the teller of tales died, and when the great dragon heard about it hesaid that he would have to eat them all up.."
But the wisest of all the guinea-pigs had a plan. "Look great dragon I know our tale teller has gone but we do have many tails, enough to last you all your life.
If we give them all to you will you go away and promise to leave us alone, for the dragon thought that the wise old guinea-pig had said TALES!, were in fact the wise old guinea-pig had said TAILS!
And with that the great dragon left and promised to come back in the morning. But much earlier before the dragon arrived the Wise old guinea-pig had removed from every guinea-pig, its tail. And when the great dragon arrived the wise guinea-pig showed him the heap of ninety-nine thousand, seven hundred and forty-six tails.
And the great dragon, who hadn't really a bad heart, thought it such a fine joke that this time the wind of his laughter blew the moon to the other side of the world, and it was a month before it could get back.
But the dragon kept his promise, and the guinea-pigs were left i peace, tail-less but very happy.
And from that day to this the guinea-pigs have never had a tail."
Another great tail, oops tale from the wonderful Stephen Southwold and his book of
"Forty More Tales."
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