THE STORY OF THE FOOLS

Once upon a time there lived a man called Omari and his wife, and they

had a very fine fat black ox. So fat was this ox that all the young men

in the village wanted to eat it, but Omari would not part with it.

Till one day he went away on a journey; then they thought, "Now we will

be able to get that ox and have a feast, for his wife is a great fool."

So twenty men set out and came to the house of that woman, Omari's wife,

and they knocked on the door.

"Hodi!"

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