XX - A Whale of a Story

Two whales, a male and a female, were swimming side by side in the

ocean. Suddenly, the male whale spots a ship in the distance.

He recognizes it as the whaling ship that killed his father. Filled

with anger, he says to his female companion,

'That's the ship that killed my father! Let's swim closer!'

When they were close enough, the male said, 'Why don't we swim under

the ship and blow air through our blow holes

and break the ship into a million pieces? That will be sweet revenge.'

And the female agreed to this.

So they each took a deep breath of air, swam under the ship, and blew

enormous amounts of air under the ship. The ship

flew into the air and crashed back to the sea and broke into a

thousand pieces. The pair of whales started to swim off

when they realised that the sailors were not dead but floating,

clinging to pieces of wood in the ocean.

The male whale was furious and said to the female whale, 'They're

still alive, but I've got another idea.

Let's swim around and gulp up all the sailors!'

That's when the female stopped swimming, looked at the male and said,

'Oh no... I agreed to the blow job but I'm not swallowing the seamen.'