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Ajala the Terrible Child and other Stories - Rotimi Ogunjobi
Ajala the Terrible Child
& other stories
By Rotimi Ogunjobi
Auntie Mimie Children Series
© 2013 Rotimi Ogunjobi
ISBN: 978-978-49837-0-9
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.
AUTHOR'S ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Some of the stories in this book were adapted from several Yoruba folk tales including from the books previously written in Yoruba by D. O. Fagunwa.
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Contents
USMAN AND THE LEOPARD
THE LION’S FOOD
AJALA THE TERRIBLE CHILD
THE FOOLISH RICH MAN
USMAN AND THE LEOPARD
Usman, a farmer, was walking one morning through a bush path which led to his farm. As he got close to a village which was along the way he found Leopard inside a steel cage. The cage was a trap which had been set by the people living in a nearby village, and the cage had been made in such a way that once an animal entered, it would be unable to get out again unless the door was opened from outside. Leopard was hopelessly trapped.
'Open the door of this horrible cage for me, my good man,' Leopard desperately pleaded; but Usman refused. Leopard begged for long, and still Usman would not open the cage.
'What is it that I have done to you?’ Leopard unhappily said. 'Do you not know that I could one day be of help to you too? It is true that everyone calls me a dangerous animal, but I know that this is not true. You know how wicked human beings are and how they hate one another, and speak evil against one another. If you live with me for only three days, you will never want to leave my home because you will see how pleasant I really am. Certainly, if you go away and you leave me in this cage, someone else will soon come along in a moment to release me. You should then pray that our paths never cross again, but it certainly will, one day.'
And when Usman heard this he said to Leopard:
'What you say is true; I even understand the little that you have