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The Rubber Man Time passed, and people began to bring home their nuts, but Spider brought nothing. Then his wife said: "When will you bring our nuts home? Shall I help you?" "No, no, I do not want your help," Spider answered. "I shall bring the nuts home in a few days." But how could he bring the nuts home? He had no nuts now! He had not even a farm! "Where can I get the nuts?" he asked himself. "Ah, I know. I shall steal some," he thought. At night he went out of his house and soon came to the chief's farm. It was a big farm, and there were many nuts in the nut trees. So he filled his bag with nuts, hid the bag under a tree in the forest and went back home. The next morning he said to his wife: "Today I shall bring the nuts from our farm. Please make a good supper! I shall be very hungry and tired." "Yes, my dear," said his wife. Spider went to the forest. The bag of nuts was there under the tree. Spider ate some nuts and had a good sleep. In the evening he carried the bag to his wife. She was so happy! She opened the bag, took one nut, ate it, then took another and then another. How good they were.! The next night Spider again went to the chief's farm and again stole a bag of nuts. When the next evening came, he carried it to his wife. He did the same thing again and again. But one night the chief's servant saw a thief was stealing the nuts. "I must catch the thief. But how can I do that?" thought the servant. Then an idea came to him. He took two big pots and went to the forest to find some gutta-percha trees. He made brown rubber out of gutta-percha sap, and then he made a rubber man. He placed the the sticky rubber man http://www.africawithin.com/tour/ghana/rubber_man.htm (2 of 4) [5/22/2003 3:10:15 AM]
The Rubber Man near the nut trees. "Now I shall know who the thief is," he said to himself. When night came and all the people were asleep, Spider went to the chief's farm. He came to the place where the nuts were and suddenly saw a man there. "Oh," he asked the man, "what do you want here?" There was no answer. "Who are you?" Spider asked him again. "What are you doing here at night?" The rubber man did not speak. Then Spider hit the rubber man on the head and cried: "Why do you not answer me?" The rubber man was so sticky that Spider could not pull his hand away from the man's head. "Let me go! Let me go!" cried Spider and hit the rubber man with the other hand. And the other hand stuck to the man's head too. Now Spider understood that it was not a man. Still he tried to push it away with his foot, but his foot stuck to the rubber man too. Now Spider could not move any more." "How silly I was," he said to himself. "People will come in the morning, and everybody will know that I am a thief." Poor Spider! In the morning the chief's servant tore him away from the rubber man and brought him before the chief... . And from that day on Spider hid in a dark place and did not speak to http://www.africawithin.com/tour/ghana/rubber_man.htm (3 of 4) [5/22/2003 3:10:15 AM]
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