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 ? ' ` Yes , of course I do . What a question ! But what does it matter to you ? ' said the turtle , more suspicious than ever . ` Oh , I only thought that after your long journey you might like to wash . The roads are so muddy , after the winter 's rains .
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