/•i04 SIRO.MGA KOLKLOUK. 



not want to touch dirty things hke you. You had better stay 

 there." 



Then t)ie iguana said, " I am not dirty; I wash myself every 

 day." 



I can't lielp that," rcpHed the hare, "you may wash 

 yourself every day, but you are so dirty that I cannot touch 

 you." 



Now the iguana was crying all the time, and begging the 

 hare to help her. 



No," said the hare, " I don t know what to do. My hands 

 are so very clean. You had better stop where you are. ' 



Then the hare went away into the bush, playing on the 

 trumpet and making a great noise, " Ti-ti-ti." And he played 

 the same tricks again. That is the end. 



V. 



NWAMPFUNDLA AND THE ElEPHANT. 



The lion is the chief of all the animals. He is the great chief 

 of all the annuals that are in the bush. He is chief even over the 

 elephants, though they are bigger than he. There is no beast of 

 them all that does not say, " Bayete. Hosi ! " when they meet 

 him in the path. Now, as everybody knows, it is not good for a 

 chief, even a little chief, a hosana, to be alone. Every one of 

 them has his indunas, and his servants. Is it not so? 



Very well, the lion, who was the big chief of all the animals, 

 had many servants. They were all servants of the lion, the chief 

 of all the animals 



Now Nwampfundla, the Hare, was the servant of the great 

 chief, the lion. He w^nt with him to all the places where he 

 went. He did all things that his master, the lion, told him to do. 



Now one day the lion said, " Let us go from this place. Let 

 us pass through the lands to another place." 



So all the animals who were the servants of the lion took 

 their mats and the things that they wanted for the journey, and 

 they went away from the kraal of the lion. 



Now they went all walking together. There were many of 

 them. The servants of the lion were very many, for he was a 

 great chief. By and bye they came to a very fruitful country, 

 and soon before dark they came to a place where there was a big 

 miebc, a nice fruit tree. It had plenty of good fruit on it. So 

 the tinduna, the attendants of the lion, said to him, " O 

 Hosi, Chief, here is a good • place. Here is plenty of 

 good fruit. Let us stop in this place. It is a good 

 place for us to stop in. Let us pass the night here. We 

 can sleep here very nicely." So their master the lion 

 looked at the place, and when he saw the nwebc tree he 



