"Do not boast Mr. Elephant, I am as strong as you are!" said the tortoise, but the elephant just laughed. So the tortoise asked him to come to his hill the next morning.
The next day, before sunrise, the tortoise ran down the hill to the river where he met the hippopotamus, who was just on his way back to the water after his nocturnal feeding.
"Mr Hippo! Shall we have a tug-of-war? I bet I'm as strong as you are!" said the tortoise.
The tortoise laughed at this ridiculous idea, but agreed. The tortoise produced a long rope and told the hippo to hold it in his mouth until the tortoise shouted "Hey!".
Then the tortoise ran back up the hill where he found the elephant, who was getting impatient. He gave the elephant the other end of the rope and said, "When I say 'hey!' pull, and you'll see which of us is the strongest."
Then he ran halfway back down the hill, to a place where he couldn't be seen, and shouted "HEY!". The elephant and the hippopotamus pulled and pulled, but neither could budge the other – they were of equal strength.
They both agreed that the tortoise was as strong as they were.
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