summary of story Whale and Elephant play tug in book The English Channel literature reader 5
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"The Elephant and the Whale" is a children's story written by Alcee Fortier in the collection, "Louisiana Folk Tales".
Summer:
This is a story about the animal kingdom. The main characters are Compair Lapin, a rabbit, the elephant and the whale. Compair Bouki, the donkey is a friend of Lapin. One day Lapin and Bouki found themselves eavesdropping the elephant and the whale. The latter made a pact between themselves that because of their strength they should be the rulers of the jungle and the sea. But
Lapin was angry that they got to think that they could rule because they are strong and mighty. Lapin was proud of his cunning so he decided to teach them a lesson. The rabbit tricked the elephant and the whale lesson by making them fools twice.
Summary of Whale and Elephant:
The story is about a clever rabbit, strong elephant and whale. Rabbit loved to play tricks on other animals. One day he met a big strong elephant near the sea and they were discussing who is more powerful as elephant already knew that he had more strength than small rabbit. Rabbit thought of a trick and told that let me tie a rope around you and I can drag you into the sea. First elephant laughed and he agreed. Rabbit tied the rope around elephant and told when you feel tug start pulling.
After that rabbit ran near the sea rope with another end of the rope and he saw a whale and asked are you strong? Whale said yes I am the strongest animal on the planet. But rabbit told I will prove you wrong. Let me tie a rope around you and I will drag you. Whale also laughed. Rabbit tied the rope, ran into the wood and hide behind the tree and shouted pull now. Both elephant and whale started pulling as both were thinking that rabbit was on the other end of the rope and they easily drag rabbit. Both were in a tug war but neither could drag and rope broke and they fled in opposite direction. Rabbit won with his clever in front of powerful animal.