How The Tortoise Got Its Shell: The chief Mauri decided to have a huge yam festival. He sent all of his servants to gather supplies for the festival and sent Mr. Klo, the tortoise to buy palm wine. Mr. Klo was very fast and a strong traveller so he made it to the palm fields of Koklovi, the chicken. Koklovi refused to sell his palm wine and said that Mr. Klo could have all the wine and pine trees if he could beat him in a fight. Both were very strong fighters, so the fight lasted for hours before Mr. Klo finally won. He filled his pot with the wine, drank all the rest, and went on his way with the palm trees on his back. The wine made him sleepy so he could not walk fast with his load. When he reached the palace, the gates were already closed. For the next two months, rain kept falling so everybody stayed in the palace. By the time the gates opened, Mr. Klo had died. He was restored back to life, but the pot and dust were caked together forming a shell.
Elephant and Wren: There was a tree in the palace courtyard and because it was starting to overshadow the nearby fields, the king ordered it to be cut down. He offered the payment of an elephant to whoever could cut it down. Spider was very cunning and wanted the elephant for himself. A servant was ordered to stay with spider to ensure that he only use the wooden axe. He hid in his bag a steel axe and tricked the servant to run off and used the steel axe as often as he could. Finally, the tree was cut down and Spider was able to take the elephant home. He was very greedy and decided to hide it from his family. He saw a wren in a tree and decided to take that home for his children and to keep the elephant for himself. He tied the elephant to the tree and climbed up but the wren flew away. He climbed back down and saw that the elephant had escaped. He had to come home empty-handed.
How Mushrooms First Grew: Two brothers were in debt and were tired of running so they decided to make a farm and settle their debt. They had a very nice field of freshly sowed corn seeds when a batfowl came by and ate all the seeds. The debt was then transferred over to it. He tried laying eggs to hatch and sell for money, but a storm came and a branch from the silk tree broke off and landed on the eggs. The debt was then transferred to the tree. The tree made silk cotton to pay off its debt but an elephant came by and plucked all the cotton. The debt was continually transferred until it came upon a group of ants. They discussed together and contributed all their money and sent one of the men to go and buy linen thread. They would then weave it and sell it to repay the debt. They would often spread it out in sunshine to keep it nice. Men would often see these and call them "mushrooms" and pick them for food.
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