The Two Toads

Two toads were swimming in a pond one afternoon when they happened upon an object floating on the water. It was about the size of their heads, round, red, with a rounded and ridged wall running all around it. In fact, it was a bottle cap. The toads looked curiously at the object. The first toad grabbed it and put it on its head. “It’s a hat!” he said.

            “No,” said the other, and took the bottle cap and filled it with water, then drank from it. “It’s a cup!” he said.

            Finally, a tortoise appeared and ate the bottle cap, but choked on it and died.

            “It must have been poisonous, whatever it was,” said the toads. Fools.