` Leave that to me ; I will manage him , ' replied the wife , and at that moment the turtle came in , and seized her by the wrist . ` Come with me , ' he said sternly . ` You broke your promise , ' answered she . ` You said you would be back soon , and it is more than a year since you went ! How was I to know that you were alive ? ' At her words the husband took courage , and spoke hastily : ` Yes , you promised you would go to war and bring back some prisoners , and you have not done it . ' ' I DID go , and made many prisoners , ' retorted the turtle angrily , drawing out his knife . ` Look here , if she wo n't be MY wife , she sha 'n' t be YOURS . I will cut her in two ; and you shall have one half , and I the other . ' ` But half a woman is no use to me , ' answered the man . ` If you want her so much you had better take her . ' And the turtle , followed by his relations , carried her off to his own hut . Now the woman saw she would gain nothing by being sulky , so she pretended to be very glad to have got rid of her husband ; but all the while she was trying to invent a plan to deliver herself from the turtle . At length she remembered that one of her friends had a large iron pot , and when the turtle had gone to his room to put away his fringes , she ran over to her neighbour 's and brought it back . Then she filled it with water and hung it over the fire to boil . It was just beginning to bubble and hiss when the turtle entered . ` What are you doing there ? ' asked he , for he was always afraid of things that he did not understand . ` Just warming some water , ' she answered . ` Do you know how to swim ? '
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