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After he had gone a little way, the Lion said: "I know that Ananzi is a great rogue; I dare say he has got something there that he doesn't want me to see, and I will just follow him;" but he took care not to let Ananzi see him.
But when he had eaten about half a dozen the Lion came up and said: "Well, brother Ananzi, a pretty tale you have told me." "Oh! brother Lion, I am so glad you have come; never mind what tale I have told you, but come and sit down it was only my fun." So Lion sat down and began to eat; but before Ananzi had eaten two fish, Lion had emptied one of the sacks.
Ananzi and Baboon were disputing one day which was fattest. Ananzi said he was sure he was fat, but Baboon declared he was fatter. Then Ananzi proposed that they should prove it; so they made a fire, and agreed that they should hang up before it, and see which would drop most fat. Then Baboon hung up Ananzi first, but no fat dropped.
Then Ananzi thought, now is my chance; so he got a big stick and beat him, and then went away and left him, for he was afraid to loose him lest he should kill him. She could not tell who spoke to her, but she looked where the voice came from, and saw the Lion tied to the tree. "Good morning, Mr. Lion, what are you doing there?"
As soon as Atoukama was gone away, Quanqua killed the ox, and hid it all away, where Ananzi should not see it; but first he cut off the tail, then he dug a hole near the river side and stuck the tail partly in, leaving out the tip. When he saw Ananzi coming, he caught hold of the tail, pretending to tug at it as if he were pulling the ox out of the hole.
When Ananzi had fried all, the fish, he put them into the sacks, and took the sacks on his back and set off to the mountains. He had not gone very far when he met Lion, and Lion said to him': 'Well, brother Ananzi, where have you been? I have not seen you a long time. Ananzi said, 'I have been travelling about. 'But what have you got there? said the Lion. 'Oh!
Once on a time Ananzi planned a scheme. He went to town and bought ever so many firkins of fat, and ever so many sacks, and ever so many balls of string, and a very big frying pan, then he went to the bay and blew a shell, and called the Head-fish in the sea, 'Green Eel', to him.
After he had gone a little way, the Lion said, 'I know that Ananzi is a great rogue; I daresay he has got something there that he doesn't want me to see, and I will just follow him'; but he took care not to let Ananzi see him.
In the middle of the night he heard the men calling out, for they smelt a horrid smell, and tried to wake the woman-first one man gave her a blow, and then another, until all the men had struck her, but Ananzi took no notice of the noise.
The Lion said, 'You must not tie me tight, for I did not tie you tight. And Ananzi said, 'Oh! no, to be sure I will not. But he tied him as tight as ever he could, and then told him to try and get loose. The Lion tried and tried in vain he could not get loose.
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