The Tortoise and the Dog

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When I saw the contest by @sankofa I
became nostalgic and remembered the different stories that my late grandpa told me before he died in 2012. Here is one of the interesting ones I like. It is the story of the Tortoise and Dog. It goes thus...

Tortoise and Dog were intimate friends and were both farmers.

Both of them had very big farms and planted different kind of crops.

They both lived in a village where the king of the village honored best farmer in the village every year. As a result of this, they both planned to become the next best farmer of the year in the village.

One day, both of them had a meeting, and they discussed on who to become the best farmer of the year between them. Tortoise told Dog to support him to be the best farmer, but Dog disagreed, saying that Tortoise should also support him to be the best farmer.

When they both were unable to come to an agreement, Tortoise told Dog that they should go differently and see who is more wiser to achieve the goal.

Because of this, Dog didn't think so much about it before he agreed to plant what no one had ever planted throughout the duration that the contest has lasted for, cocoa. Unfortunately, Dog forgot that cocoa is a bi-annual crop which can only be harvested after two years. But the Tortoise sat down in his house for days and started thinking on what to plant. He later came to the conclusion of planting yam in large quantity.

After the year passed- by, they both went to harvest their products. Tortoise harvested large quantity of yam but Dog harvested nothing. This made tortoise to be honored as the best farmer of the year and eventually won the king's award for the year. But the Dog what very bitter and regreted his actions.

MORAL LESSON: we should always think deeply before we put our actions into practice, not to be prompt to action about what we hear or see about life, but to have a pensive thought about it before putting action into place, because a little mistake might be too costly to bear its repercussion.