But Paanya said, "If I were so powerful would I be eaten by a cat?"

So they hunted for the cat, caught it, and beat it.

But the cat cried: "Here! I am Paa'ka, the cat. Why do you beat

me? What have I done?"

And they said: "Yes, we know you are Paaka; it is you that eats Paanya,

the rat; who bores through Keeyambaaza, the mud wall; which stopped

Koosee, the south wind; and Koosee, the south wind, threw down the

calabash that struck our teacher Goso. You should not have done it."