Chapter 6 To Catch a Turtle

One fine Sunday morning Joe turned uo Fabian's residence intending to go for a swim in the river.It was low tide and the river banks were muddy.

Nevertheless they all went to the river side together with small brother Francis.All of them gather under the shed of a mangrove tree where the always dived when the tide was high.

To-day,however was low tide that morning so they sat sat there building castles in the air and laughing heartedly,when all of a sudden Francis noticed something moving in the mud beyond.

"Look ! Turtle he exclaimed.

"Where?"asked Joe."over there pointing to a pool of mud a few meters away.

Sensing it was a turtle all of them rushed towards it intending to capture it.Francis was the first one to reach that spot.He stood in front of the small pool of mud,and before he could bend down to catch the turtle,the turtle was faster then his bending.

It rushed off in between the legs of Francis.Seeing this Fabian dived at it.It appeared as if he had caught that creature,but no he dived straight into the mud.Apparently his dived head on into the mud,with his face almost stucked in.

His diving made the surrounding mud to splashed all round,dirtying Joe and Francis.All go a fair share of the mud bath.

"Look who we got here?"," A mud man",two of them began making jokes on Fabian.

"very funny""both of you are no better" Then all sat in the mud and laughed.By then the turtle which was bigger than a big plate had escaped into the river.What a lucky escape for it,otherwise it would have turned into turtle soup.

The three of them went on to clean themselves in the river and thereafter returned home empty handed.