Yertle was once a king of a pond that is on a far-away Island of Sala-ma-son. The pond he ruled over had everything the other turtles needed such as food, and warm water and the turtles were very happy until Yertle became ungrateful about the throne he sits due to it being low and he thought that if he could make it higher he would be a great ruler of all he can see so he called 9 of the turtles who serve him, to attention. One of the turtles below on the very bottom was named Mack the Turtle and he doesn't approve of the Yertle's rule. Yertle proclaims that he is now a king of a cow, a mule, a house, a blueberry bush and a cat.