-* Folklore 



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

 antelope. 1 The leopard represents the audacious robber. 



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

 County has kindly furnished me with two 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. 





425. THE ROYAL ANTELOPE (NEOTRAGUS PYGM^EUS). 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 



1 No doubt the Cobus or waterbuck and the allied reedbucks, or some of the 

 tragelaphs may be included under this term. 



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