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"Don't mention those eggs of mine, I beg of you. Some one might overhear. What you say is undoubtedly true," he added pensively, after thinking a few moments. "Then I suppose I must give up my tempting dinner of Hen. I cannot eat my Sister, can I?" "Of course you cannot," said the Mbambi, as he rustled away through the jungle. "We can't have everything we want in this world."
"Almost every day a nice fat Hen, Oh, Mbambi! so delightfully fat and tempting! comes to my river to feed. Well, why don't I make her my dinner? you ask. Now hearken: each time, just as I am about to catch her and carry her to my home she startles me by calling me 'Brother. Did you ever hear of anything so maddening? Twice I have let her escape because of the word.
But I can stand it no longer, and I am on the way to Princess Nzambi to hold a palaver about it." "Silly idiot!" cried the Mbambi, not very politely. "Do nothing of the kind. You will only get the worst of the palaver and show your ignorance before the wise Nzambi. Now listen to me. Don't you know, dear Crocodile, that the Duck lives on the water, though she is neither a fish nor a reptile?
And the Duck lays eggs. The Turtle does the same, though she is no bird. The Hen lays eggs, just as I do; and I am Mbambi, the great Lizard. As for you, dear old Hungry-Mouth, you know that at this moment" here she whispered discreetly, looking around to see that no one was listening, "at this moment in a snug nest dug out of the sand on the banks of the Congo, Mrs.
Before he had gone very far he was tired and out of breath, and stopped to rest under a banana tree. As he lay panting in the shade he saw his friend Mbambi, the great Lizard, hurrying past through the jungle. "Oh, Mbambi!" cried old Hungry-Mouth, "stop a moment. I want to speak with you. I am in great trouble."
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