Yertle the First was a painted turtle.
He, unfortunately, died during a fish round up.
Somebody stepped on the poor little fellow.
Yertle the Younger, is also a painted turtle but very shy.

I used to toss land snails on the island. The snails would crawl up the iris
stalks and Yertle would go right up after them, he'd push the stalk over and
crunch! there went the snail.


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