The boy who turned himself into a peanut.
One day,
a little boy decided to fool his father.
I will hide myself so well that you will not be able to find me,
he said.
Hide wherever you like, said the father.
I will just go home now and take a rest.
So the boy looked for a hiding place.
He saw a peanut that had three kernels,
so he turned
himself into one of the kernels and hid in the peanut.
Just then a rooster came along
and swallowed the peanut.
Then a wild bushcat leaped on the rooster and swallowed him.
Then
a dog saw the bushcat and after a long chase gobbled him down.
The dog was sleeping when
a python slithered by and made a meal of him.
The python went down to the river and was
caught in a fish trap.
Meanwhile the father had finished resting and was looking everywhere
for his son.
Not seeing him,
he walked to the river to inspect his fish trap.
There
he found a large python,
which he opened and found a dog.
He opened the dog and found a
bushcat.
He opened the bushcat and found a rooster.
He opened the rooster and found
a peanut.
Of course,
when he opened the peanut, out jumped his son.
The boy was so surprised
to be found that he never tried to fool his father again.