The Circumspect Seal

     Taylor was an odd little seal pup. He was more circumspect than all the other pups in his community. If he had been the child of anyone else his caution might be a grave transgression of the rules. Taylor lived in a state of penury. While the other seal pup homes had struts made of rocks; Taylor's struts were made of sticks. These combined factors led to a hermetic social life for Taylor.
     One day as Taylor was contemplating the duplicity of the other pups an idea began to gestate in his head. Over the past weeks and months Taylor had begun to feel livid at the other pups. They were always playing clever artifices on him and inveigling him into things. They said they are more clever than he is but it is all semantics. The euphony of his mother's call awakened Taylor from his scheming.
     Taylor ran to his mother's call. When he arrived at her home he was abased due to his forgetfulness. She had not known of his indigence and when she found out she was ashamed and called him to her. Taylor's mother found him ignoble because he was so circumspect. Taylor's day was on a declivity.
    After a long talk with his mother Taylor did the first impetuous thing he had ever done in his life. He set out on a journey of beneficence. There was no grousing on his long arduous journey to a new colony.  His journey caused a dissolution of his previously paralytic circumspect behavior.

Circumspect - cautious, prudent; careful to consider the circumstances and consequences
Transgression - violation of law
Penury - extreme poverty or scarcity
Strut - structural support or brace
Hermetic - air tight, sealed, isolated, not affected by outward influence, reclusive
Duplicity - double dealing, acting in two different ways for the purpose of deception
Gestation - pregnancy or metaphorically to hatch and idea or plan
Livid - furiously angry or enraged
Semantics - relating to the different meanings of words or other symbols
Euphony - pleasing or sweet sound especially the acoustic effect produced by words so formed or                           combined as to please the ear.
Abase - to reduce or lower, as in rank, office, reputation or esteem
Indigence - extreme poverty
Ignoble - not honorable in character or purpose, not deserving respect.
Declivity - downward slope
Impetuous - passionately, impulsive, marked by sudden, hasty emotion; forceful, violent \
Beneficent - doing good especially acts of kindness or charity
Grouse - complain or grumble
Dissolution - process of making something slowly end or disappear