Folk Tales Every Child Should Know

lls of string, and a very big frying pan, then he went to the bay and blew a shell, and called the Head-fish in the sea, "Green Eel," to hi

rying pan ready, and as fast as the fish came out of the water he caught them and put them into the frying pan, and so he did wit

and took the sacks on his back, and set off to the mountains.

ere have you been? I have

I have been tr

ve you got there

ty-eleven years, and they say I must not keep her here, so I

nzi is a great rogue; I dare say he has got something there that he doesn't want

ore, for there is some one near;" so he tied the sack up, and went on farther into the mountains, where he set his sacks down, and took out two fish whi

nzi, a pretty tale

ome; never mind what tale I have told you,

Ananzi had eaten two fish, Lion had emptied

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lf fast enough," for he was af

to revenge himself, and he said to the Lion,

d, "Why, I a

ne another to the tree, and we s

d him with some very fine string, and did not tie him tight. Anan

You must not tie me tight, for I did not tie you tight." And Ananzi said, "Oh! no, to be sure,

ght, now is my chance; so he got a big stick and beat him, and then went

h) in the wood, and as she was going she heard some one say, "Good morning, Miss Nancy!" She could no

. Lion, what are

w Ananzi who has tied me to th

me." But he gave her his word he would not; still she could

you, I hope all the trees

d been so many days without food that he was quite ravenous, but the trees immediately cried out, "Shame

id she must take him with her as her child, but she said, "No." Then he said, "I can turn myself into quite a little child and then you can take me," and at last she said, "Yes;" and he told her, when she was asked what pap her baby ate, she must be sure to tell them it

got away and ran along the wood, and the Lion ran after him. When he found the Lion was overtaking him, he turned himself into an old man with a

had seen Ananzi pass that way, but the old man said, "No, that fellow Anan

o follow him any more, for he would never catch him, and so