learn to speak 360 interesting proverbs - Onitsha Market Literature

(six thounsmd pounds). Tney made an arrange-
ment that non of them would marry/buy any-
thing c o s t i n g more than - El00 (one hundred
pounds) until the money was swelled to £10,000
(ten thounsand pounds). An arrangeme:lt was
made by them to see that whatever one wished
to buy, the other must be aware of it. .
As the business progressed, one, called Onyc-
macnwu said to the other also cded Obieche-
fule asked him, "why?". Onyemaonwu replied
that many weil-to-do business men had started
to do so. Obiechefule asked Onyemaonwu to
recall their solid arrangement conce.niog the
running ofthe business. Onyemaonwu said that
since every law embodied in their business
terms, was made by them, it could be easily
altered when necessary. At this point, Onyem-
aonwu asked his brother Obiechefule whether
he knew the meaning of his name "Onyemaon-
wu". Obiechefule said that Onyemaonwu could
mean "who knows death", "or, can it mean
more than this;" he asked indignantly. ?'he
ensuing day, Onyemaonwu went to hgos to
claim t.heir goods. When he got Lagos, he
planned the way of embezzle some of the money.
He found that he could invest the money in the
Bank and tell Obiechefule that it was stolen.
This he did.
On the day he was to return, Obiechefule
went to unload the supposed goods to be brouhgt
by Onyemaonwu. To his utter surprise he fou~d
that his brother returned without the goods.
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