Kwammanga and his family were going to see other people, to visit Kwammanga's people. He was going to visit the Aardwolf because she was his aunt. The Mantis said he would go with them. Kwammanga said to his son, the young Ichneumon, "Child, you ...

The Mantis caught sight of Will-o-the-Wisp walking about; he asked where Will-o-the-Wisp came from. Will-o’-the-Wisp told him that he was hunting about.

Mrs. Turtle one day heard of a dance which was to take place in a neighboring town. She was very anxious to go, but she had no necklace to wear.

The Monkey, the Shark, and the Washerman's Donkey

Sultan Maajnoon had seven sons and a large cat, all of whom he was very proud. Everything went well until one day the cat caught a calf. When they told the sultan, he said, "Well, the cat is mine, and the calf is mine." So they said, "Oh, alright, ...

One day, Soongoora the hare was roaming through the forest in search of food when he glanced up through the boughs of a very large calabash tree and saw that a great hole in the upper part of the trunk was inhabited by bees. He returned to town in ...

Once upon a time, Simba the lion, Feesee the hyena, and Keeteetee the rabbit made up their minds to go in for a little farming. So they went into the country, made a garden, planted all kinds of seeds, and then came home and rested for quite a while.

One day, Koongooroo, sultan of the crows, sent a letter to Mwayway, sultan of the kites, containing these few words: "I want you folks to be my soldiers."

Long, long ago there lived, in a village called Keejeejee, a woman whose husband died, leaving her with a little baby boy. She worked hard all day to get food for herself and child, but they lived very poorly and were most of the time half-starved.

There was once a sultan who had three little sons, and no one seemed to be able to teach them anything, which greatly grieved both the sultan and his wife.