The story starts with a turtle who lives in a lake and keeps getting hit by something. Every time he emerges from the water to see what it was, he sees nothing. Eventually he asks for help.
The deer was the first to help him. The turtle asked the deer to see how well he could fight so the deer began to fight a tree and broke his horns. This was not good enough for the turtle.
Next to help was was bear. Turtle asked the same thing of bear so bear began to fight the tree but was jumping around clumsily, and again it was not enough for the turtle.
Turtle called out again for someone to help him and this time a crowd of little turtles came forward. Turtle asked them to show him how they can fight, and turtle was very pleased and knew they would be the ones to fight whoever was hitting him.
He took them to his home and soon a big rock fell upon them and killed them all. Turtle came out and saw a big bird overhead. He ran to his neighbor and asked who the bird was.
The neighbor replied that it was the thunder bird and that he was very scared of him. Ever since then, turtle stayed under the water during thunderstorms.
Bibliography: Turtle and Thunder from Myths and Legends of British North America by Katharine Berry Judson.
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