THE TORTISE, THE TIGER AND THE HAWK part-2

here because of an important thing that is in the entire history of our land No hunter has ever hunted a tiger, and i believe this fact is a discredit to our great land. i am here to suggest that the king should organize a hunting competition and that should promise that anyone who is able to slay a tiger will get half his kingdom". upon hearing this the king called his chief adviser to seek his opinion, after a short disscusion the king and his adviser agreed that tortise was right and his suggestion of a competition is a very good one. the king then made the towncrier tell everyone about the upcoming hunting competition, tortise was so happy about this new development and indicated his intrest in paticipating and the king permited him to participate in the competion, he thanked the king and left the palace having a plan in mind. but the hawk who have also heard the news of the hunting competition had other plans in
mind. when tortise got home that night he made his gun and other hunting materials ready. he could sleep and was anxiously waiting for the next day which is the competition day, finally morning came slowly and tortise was the first to get to the palace where the contestants are expected to assemble before the competition begin, after all the other contestant arrived the competition began, and all went in search of a tiger to slay, while others where wandering in the forest tortise knew exactly
where to search, he just went to the spot where he buried the tiger he tricked to death, he uncovered the dead tiger and shot it twice and shouted for joy" Heee Heee!! everybody come Ooo" immediately everybody around came to tortise to find out was but they were suprised to find a dead tiger on the ground and a smiling tortise proudly standing on it, they started congratulating tortise, just then the hawk flew down from the top of a tree and accused tortise of stealing the dead tiger from him. this lead to a serious argument between tortise and hawk. when the king heard about everything he said he would not give the tortise nor the hawk any gift as he has promised, because he does not know who really killed the tiger. tortise went home that day very sad, he then determined to teach the hawk a lesson in a hard way. two days later
he told his wife to wrap him in a leaf and put him in a calabash and take the calabash to hawk's house and she should tell hawk that "my husband travelled yesterday and said you should please keep this kolanuts for him" tortise' wife did as she was told and the hawk foolishly accepted the calabash.
at night tortise silently crawled out of the calabash when hawk and his wife were discussing then hawk's wife asked hawk who really killed the tiger?
he confessed to his wife that it was tortise that really killed the tiger , on hearing this,tortise crawled silently out of the house without their notice.
days later, the hawk decided to play another trick on the tortise to know what he was thinking, he then told his wife to wrap him in a calabash and take him to tortise's house and say "please my husband has travelled and he asked me to give this corn to you because he wants you to keep it for him", understanding the kind of game the hawk is trying to play with him, the tortise accepted the calabash with a smile on his face, after hawk's wife left, he ordered his wife to boil some water for him. soon the water began to boil, his wife said him "my lord, the water is boiling what are you going to do with this hot water?" "eat part of hawk's corn of course" tortise replied, immediately hawk shouted from the calabash "it's not corn it's me hawk" tortise ignored him and poured the hot water on hawk and the hawk died instantly.......watchout for the next story