Dog and the Kingship
Mr. Dog, they wanted to invest him with the kingship. They sought all the things of royalty: the cap, the sceptre, the rings, the skin of mulkaka. The things are complete; they say: “The day has come to install.”
The headmen all came in full; they sent for the players of drum and marimba; they have come. They spread coarse mats and fine mats. Where the lord is going to sit, they laid a coarse mat; they spread on it a fine mat; they set a chair on. They say: “Let the lord sit down.” He sat down. The people begin to divide the victuals.
He, Mr. Dog, on seeing the breast of a fowl, greed grasped him. He stood up in haste; took the breast of the fowl; ran into the bush. The people said: “The lord, whom we are installing, has run away with the breast of the fowl into the bush!” The people separated.
Mr. Dog, who was going to be invested with the kingship, because of his thievery, the kingship he lost it.
I have told my little tale. Finished.