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Greedy Anansi
Greedy Anansi
This is a story about a boy. His name is Anansi.
There was a great famine in the country where Anansi lived. Anansi and
his little brothers and sisters were very hungry. The boy could not think of
anything but food.
"This hunger will kill me!" he often said.
One day he went out of the house and walked to the seashore.
"I shall try to catch a little fish," he thought.
He sat on the seashore watching, watching, watching, but nothing came.
Then suddenly he saw a green island in the sea. Anansi climbed into a
little red boat, and soon he came to the green island.
He got out of the boat, stood under the tree and looked up at big nuts high
above him. He tried to climb up the tree and get the nuts, but that was not
easy. He tried again and again, but he could not get the nuts. The nuts
were laughing at him!
"I will get you, my dear nuts!" he said. And he tired again and again to get
the nuts. At last he got one nut.
"Now I have you!" he cried. He tried to throw it into his little boat, but the
nut fell into the sea.
Well, there are many more nuts in the tree," said Anansi, but the second
nut fell into the sea too. Seven times that happened, seven good, big nuts
were in the sea! The wind carried them far, far away. The boy cried and
cried, but nuts have no ears! They did not come back.
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