Tale

 1 Tortoi|                 The Talkative Tortoise~THE future Buddha was once
 2 Tortoi|     the Himalaya mountains, a tortoise. Two young hamsas, or wild
 3 Tortoi|    with him, they said to the tortoise:~"Friend tortoise! the place
 4 Tortoi|      to the tortoise:~"Friend tortoise! the place where we live,
 5 Tortoi|     said they. And making the tortoise bite hold of a stick, they
 6 Tortoi|     wild ducks are carrying a tortoise along on a stick!" Whereupon
 7 Tortoi|       a stick!" Whereupon the tortoise wanted to say, "If my friends
 8 Tortoi|     arose a universal cry, "A tortoise has fallen in the open courtyard,
 9 Tortoi| courtiers; and looking at the tortoise, he asked the Bodisat, "
10 Tortoi|       means of doing so. This tortoise must have made friends with
11 Tortoi|     these Verses:~"Verily the tortoise killed himself~Whilst uttering
12 Tortoi|     his talking overmuch,~The tortoise fell into this wretched
13 StNote| invented.~XIII. THE TALKATIVE TORTOISE.~Source. - The Kacchapa