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FOLK STORIES

FROM

SOUTHERN NIGERIA
WEST AFRICA

 

BY

ELPHINSTONE DAYRELL, F.R.G.S., F.R.A.I.

DISTRICT COMMISSIONER, SOUTHERN NIGERIA

 

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

ANDREW LANG

 

WITH FRONTISPIECE

 

 

LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO.

39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON

NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA

1910


CONTENTS

Frontispiece from a Drawing in Colour by
Major G. M. de L. Dayrell

PAGE
Introductionvii
I. The Tortoise with a Pretty Daughter1
II. How a Hunter obtained Money from his Friends the Leopard, Goat, Bush Cat, andCock, and how he got out of repaying them6
III. The Woman with two Skins11
IV. The King's Magic Drum20
V. Ituen and the King's Wife29
VI. Of the Pretty Stranger who Killed the King33
VII. Why the Bat flies by Night36
VIII. The Disobedient Daughter who Married a Skull38
IX. The King who Married the Cock's Daughter42
X. Concerning the Woman, the Ape, and the Child46
XI. The Fish and The Leopard's Wife; or, Why the Fish lives in theWater49
XII. Why the Bat is Ashamed to be seen in theDaytime...

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