E-Learning - African Folklore
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
African (General) NigerianTranscript
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Hello, kids. Welcome to Storytime on Leonard Tone radio. Today we'll hear the story of the elephant and the tortoise. It's also the reason why the ones are blind and the elephant has small eyes. Grab a seat or a friend because you are definitely going to love this one. Okay, then let's get into it. When Amber was king of caliber, the elephant was not only a very big animal, but he had eyes in proportion to his immense bulk. In those days, men and animals were friends and all mixed together quite freely at regular intervals. King Amble used to give a fist, and the elephant used to eat more than anyone, although the hippopotamus used to do his best, however, not been as big as the elephant. Although he was very fat, he was left a long way behind as the elephant had so much. At this fist, the tortoise, who was small but very cunning, made up his mind to put a stop to the elephant, eating more than a fierce share of the food provided. He therefore placed some dry canals and shrimps, of which the elephant was very fond in his back and went to the elephant house to make an afternoon call. When the tortoise arrived, the elephant told him to sit down, so he made himself comfortable and having shot one eye, he took one palm kernel and a shrimp out of his bag and commenced to eat them with so much relish. When the elephants saw the tortoise eating, he said, as he was always hungry himself. You seem to have some good food there. What are you eating? The tortoise replied that the food was sweet so much, but was rather painful to him as he was eating one of his own eyeballs and he lifted up his head, showing one eye closed. The elephants then said, If the food is so good, check out one of my eyes and give me the same food. The tortoise who was waiting for this, knowing how greeted the elephant was, had brought a sharp knife with him for that very purpose, I said to the elephant, I cannot reach your eye as you are so big. The elephants then took the thirties up in his trunk and lifted him up, and as soon as he came near the elephants, I with one quick scoop of the sharp knife. He had the elephants right eye out the elephant trumpeted out with pain. But the tortoise give him some of the dried kernels and shrimps. And this