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1 Do not Trust your Friend 13 2 Leopard's Hunting-Camp 18 3 Tests of Death: 1st Version 25 2nd Version 27 4…

Date of account: Published 1917
Source: Where Animals Talk: West African Folk Lore Tales
Reference: Where Animals Talk: West African Folk Lore Tales · selected passage 1
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-25

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1 Do not Trust your Friend 13 2 Leopard's Hunting-Camp 18 3 Tests of Death: 1st Version 25 2nd Version 27 4 Tasks done for a Wife; and, The Giant Goat 30 5 A Tug-of-War 37 6 Agenda: Rat's Play on a Name 41 7 "Nuts are Eaten Because of Angângwe": A Proverb 49 8 Who are Crocodile's Relatives? 53 9 Who is King of Birds? and, Why Chickens live with Mankind 54 10 "Njiwo Died of Sleep:" A Proverb 58 11 Which is the Fattest:--Manatus, Hog, or Oyster? 60 12 Why Mosquitoes Buzz 62 13 Unkind Criticism 63 14 The Suitors of Princess Gorilla 65 15 Leopard of the Fine Skin 68 16 Why the Plantain-Stalk Bears but One Bunch 76

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