The Hunter and His Three Dogs by Olawale Aina - HTML preview

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An Ancient folktale from Indian .

 

There were four brothers who were discussing what each of them would like to pursue in life. They said, let us search the earth and find a special science. Each of them went off in different directions to pursue his ambition They agree to meet again in six month. When they gathered, one of the brother revealed that he had discovered how to create flesh from a fragment of bone. Another learned how to make skin and hair appear if there was flesh on a bone. The third was able to create limbs if he had skin and flesh and bone. The other brother knew how to give life to a creature that was complete with limbs.

The four brothers went I into the ' jugle to demonstrate their specialities. They found a piece of bone, and as fate would have it, the piece of bone had ones belonged to a lionlion, though they did not know it. The first brother added flesh to the bone. The second added skin and hair. The third create four limbs for the creature. The final brother gave it the spark of life. The lion rose to its feet, shook his menacing mane and killed all four brothers. He the contentedly vanished into the jungle. It is not right to pursue selfish ambition.