But Kaamba said, "If I were so powerful would I be cut by a knife?"

So they took the knife and beat it.

But the knife cried: "Here! I am Kee'soo, the knife. Why do you beat

me? What have I done?"

And they said: "Yes, we know you are Keesoo; you cut Kaamba, the rope;

that ties Paaka, the cat; who 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."