But Keesoo said, "If I were so powerful would I be burned by the fire?"

And they went and beat the fire.

But the fire cried: "Here! I am Mo'to, the fire. Why do you beat

me? What have I done?"

And they said: "Yes, we know you are Moto; you burn Keesoo, the knife;

that cuts 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."