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    Animal Tales from Africa
    Animal Tales from Africa
    Animal Tales from Africa
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    Animal Tales from Africa

    By Hannah Bell

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    Tales from the Shona folklore of Zimbabwe, collected by Hannah Bell. Humour, wisdom, satire using as characters the wild animals of the African bush: elephant, hare, jackal, baboon, owl and others.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRosslyn Publishers
    Release dateJan 13, 2017
    ISBN9781370410897
    Animal Tales from Africa
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    Hannah Bell

    Hannah Bell was a children's author and writer of children's stories for radio. She spoke Shona from an early age; her parents were missionaries in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). She cherished these tales as a child, and committed them to English publication shortly before she passed away.

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      Animal Tales from Africa - Hannah Bell

      Animal Tales from Africa

      Hannah Bell

      Copyright 2014 Hannah Bell

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrical, chemical, mechanical, optical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission of the publisher.

      Drawings by Elmarie Macaskill

      Rosslyn Press

      SOUTH AFRICA

      Rosslyni@lantic.net

      www.rosslynpublishers.com

      Contents

      The feast for animals with horns

      Hare and the crocodiles

      Hare and Rooster

      Hare takes milk on his journey

      Hare nearly destroys the lions

      Why Hare’s tail is short and stubby

      Hare and Baboon farm together

      Hare looks after a woman’s child

      Hare and Baboon dine together

      Leopard, Jackal and Man

      Why chickens always scratch in the ground

      How chickens came to live with people

      The headman and the rat

      Why Cat lives with people

      Elephant and Tortoise run a race

      Why Tortoise lives in a dry place

      Why Owl is no longer king

      Why Pig’s snout is flat

      The curious field mouse

      The feast for animals with horns

      Long ago, there was a large bush where all the animals lived together: lions, elephants, rhinos, buck, zebras, hares – yes, and many more.

      Each kind of animal lived in its own part of the bush, and they visited each other in turns. In the middle of the bush lived Lion, the king. Elephant’s house was near the river.

      One day, Elephant decided to invite all the animals with horns to a feast. Such animals belonged with him, he thought, because didn’t he himself have two horns growing out of his mouth? So he sent his messengers out to invite all the animals with horns.

      One of his helpers was Rooster, who was given the task of guarding the gate, to see that only animals with horns came in.

      On the evening of the feast all the invited guests arrived. They passed through the gate and started romping on the grass. Hare also came up to the gate and ordered Rooster: Open up, so that I can also enter and take part in the feast.

      But Hares don’t have horns, said Rooster. If you had horns I would let you in.

      Hare was furious at being turned away. He decided to make a plan, as the ones inside were sounding very jolly. He knew where there was a big beehive. He went there, removed a lot of beeswax, pressed it into the shape of horns, and stuck it to his forehead with tree gum.

      He walked to Elephant’s house again, where by now everyone was really merry. Now he had horns on his head, Rooster couldn’t stop him any more.

      The other animals were very surprised to see Hare. A hare with horns! They carried on talking and having fun. The big animals chatted to each other; the medium sized ones with the others that aren’t very large, and the little animals with each other. But Hare was so proud, since he had managed to join the feast, that he didn’t want to stand talking to little animals. No, he joined the really big ones, Elephant and the rhinos.

      The feast reached a climax. They beat drums, blew on flutes and danced. The merriment lasted well into the night. The guests were at length so tired from all the eating and leaping around that they simply

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