Folkl 



ore 



(the sheep of European legend) is generally played by the 

 antelope.' The leopard represents the audacious robber. 



Mr. Wilfrid Kanga, a Liberian school-teacher of Maryland 

 County has kindly furnished me with tvvo typical folklore stories, 

 one of the Vai people in Western Liberia and the other from 

 the Grebo, a Kru race in the eastern part of the republic. 



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 425. THK ROYAL ANl ELOPE (NEOTKAGUS PYGM^US). AFTER A DRAWING BY J. WOLF 



Story of the Man and the Leopard 



(^From the Grebo Tribe) 



A MAN once had for his personal friend a leopard. As 

 times became hard and the financial condition of the town more 



' No doubt the Cobiis or vvaterbuck and the allied reedbucks, or some of the 

 tragelaphs may be included under this term. 



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