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'Hmph!' said the man. 'Is all that food we've given him, all the clothes, all the care we've taken of him--is it all for nothing? Are we just going to sit back and watch my boy walk out of that door and not come back after all the trouble we've taken?'
One of the women said, 'We could put poison in his soup tomorrow. When he drinks it, he'll die.'
And that's what they agreed to do--put poison in the boy's soup.
— Oct 28, 2025 12:34PM
One of the women said, 'We could put poison in his soup tomorrow. When he drinks it, he'll die.'
And that's what they agreed to do--put poison in the boy's soup.
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One day these two swindlers were both short of money - bills piling up, wives demanding money for this and money for that. So the two swindlers each set about making a dishonest naira or two.
Our man from Kano went out into the bush to an enormous baobab tree and he tore a large strip of bark off its trunk. The Kano man took the bark back to town and went to the round pits where cloth is dyed.
— Oct 29, 2025 02:25PM
Our man from Kano went out into the bush to an enormous baobab tree and he tore a large strip of bark off its trunk. The Kano man took the bark back to town and went to the round pits where cloth is dyed.
