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violent, and had taken many cattle from his neighbours. Once upon 
a time he ordered his son to go and occupy a neighbour’s house, and 
if he did not do so he threatened to kill him. The son went and 
slept in that house, but found in the early morning that the inhabi- 
tants had fled. He dared not return home, whilst by himself he 
would have starved ; so he prayed the ‘ Great Magician ’ to rescue 
him, and was thereupon, together with the house, turned into an 
elephant.” 
“ An honest man had an only daughter, and she was wooed by a 
neighbour for his son, who had turned out badly. The young couple 
lived happily for a short time, but when the young wife absented 
herself occasionally from the house to visit her parents, her husband 
reproached her with availing herself of this excuse to go after other 
men. Each day he treated her worse, so she fled and returned to 
her father, to whom she related her misfortune ; and he, angry at the 
stain that had fallen on his own and his daughter’s honour, killed 
himself. At this moment the son-indaw arrived, and was transformed 
by the ‘ Great Magician ’ into a chimpanzee. But the wife, who 
would not desert him in spite of all that had happened, followed 
him, and from them are sprung the chimpanzees, who still talk 
among themselves like men, and have a fondness for women.” 
“ ‘ I am better off than thou,’ said the francolin to the tortoise ; ‘ I 
can both walk quickly and fly.’ ‘ I congratulate you,’ replied the 
tortoise. ‘I draw myself along, and do my business in the best 
way I can.’ Now it happened that some men out hunting set fire 
to the grass of the plain. The increasing conflagration drew closer, 
and made the circle smaller and smaller. The peril of the two 
animals was imminent and certain. The tortoise drew himself into 
a deep wet hole made by the foot of an elephant and was saved. 
The francolin tried to fly, hut the smoke and fire overpowered him, 
and he fell down and died. He who boasts, fails when tested.” 
“ The leopard entrusted her three little cubs to the custody of the 
dog, assuring him that he should have as a recompense for his 
services plenty of meat, on condition, however, that he never gnawed 
the bones. The arrangement went on very well for some time, but 
one day the dog, yielding to temptation, gnawed a bone, a splinter 
flew from it, and striking a cub on the head, killed it. He found it 
easy to deceive the mother on her return by bringing the two 
