TURTLE OR TORTOISE?
Sir,-While offering congratulations on the delightful children’s page in The Listener, in the interest of truth and accuracy, I feel that I should point out that Myrtle is no turtle-but a tortoise!-that is if her looks do not belie her! Both turtles and tortoises come under the category of reptiles, but the land species are usually designated as tortoises, the aquatic kinds as turtles. Therefore as Myrtle’s portrait depicts her leading an apparently natural life on land, I'm afraid that she\ must resign herself to being Myrtle the Tortoise. With vcood wishes for the Children’s Page.
VERITAS
(Wellington).
(Our correspondent may be right. Someone else has made the same complaint. But we hore both have noticed on whose broad back Myrtle first appeared.-Ed.).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 95, 18 April 1941, Page 4
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126TURTLE OR TORTOISE? New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 95, 18 April 1941, Page 4
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