Note 3 — XIV. The Little Red Tortoise.
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“At that time, my baasjes, the whole Tortoise nation was having a hard time with Oubaas Giraffe—that old horse with the long neck and the unequal legs, who is all white and black like a burnt thornbush3 with crows sitting on it. He gives blue ashes when he is burnt, therefore is he called the Blue One.