龟壳不光滑的童话故事

　　This is a folk story — why the tortoise's shell is not smooth — which was told by Okonwo's wife, Ekwefi to her daughter, Ezinma.
　　Long, long time ago, there was a famine in those days. All of the birds were invited to the sky to have a great feast. When the tortoise heard that, he tried to ask the birds to bring him to go there together. Then each bird lent him a feather. The tortoise made himself to be called “all of you” cunningly. They were well treated in the sky. At that time, the tortoise asked a man in the sky deliberately, “For whom have you prepared this feast?” “For all of you” replied the man. And so the tortoise ate the best part of the food, which made the bird very angry. They took back the feather they had lent to the tortoise before flying home. The tortoise had to jump back to the ground without feather and his shell was broken into pieces.
　　The tortoise in the story is a cunning and ungrateful fellow. The folk story tells us that there is no g