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Once upon
a time, when the wild animals were speaking; Lion, hyena, leopard didn’t feed
themselves on other animal’s flesh; they lived together peacefully and advised
each other on life related issues. Lion was the king of the jungle.
Birds,
crocodiles, tortoises were changed their body sharp to human being and went to
market for buying and selling of goods, all the animals could speak fluently.
God creation is amazing but He (GOD) can do more than that.
In one
small Fulani community located between Cameroon and Ghana, there was a
gossiping goat reared by a house wife with her husband who was a farmer and one
child. The goat was very talkative who talks anyhow and it could not control
its tongue. Everybody hated the goat because of its bad speaking habit, but it
could not change its habitual act, its gossiping habit gradually became
extraordinary with aroma language, everything the goat saw, must embellish it.
There was
a day her rearing-mother spent much time in toilet. During this day this
chitchat goat encircled the village reporting that:
“My
raring mother spend three hours in toilet, I could hear the sound of gas she
was releasing from where I ‘am”
As her
rearing-mother heard that rumor she was annoyed, she even attempted to sell the
gossiping goat. But when she went to market to sell the goat, all and sundry
that heard that: the goat is a gossiper he in fact refused to buy it.
Unhappily, they returned home together, the speaking goat added more of its
words, she became more ad much gossiper, linking unusual styles of fighting
between families.
Nearby rearing-mother’s
house there was a young lady who lost her parent, her step-mother didn’t take
good care of her, and she always refused to feed her but lug her with huge and
heavy works in their compound. Because of that, the young lady hard to go out
to steal food for her survival.
One day,
the young lady’s step-mother sent her to rearing-mother’s house. As the young
lady entered the house, she found nobody except little kid; his mother went out
to get some firewood that enable her to complete her cooking, which she put on
traditional stove at the premises of the compound, but before she left, she
instructed the goat to lull the baby into sleep before she come back, but the
goat went out too.
The little kid was
playing with his two legs, the pot under traditional stove, the young lady has
very good sense of any smell like a dog, she smelt the pleasant aroma of the
cooking, as she confirmed there was nobody in the house, her mouth was watering
she quickly reached to the cooking pot, opened it and took some food hided it
then instantly walked away. Since opening the pot, she didn’t know that the
goat got back just to see the condition of the child, the goat then saw
everything the young lady did, it stared how young lady tried hard to stole
food and hided it.
The goat
quickly walked out and went to young lady’s step mother and told her what the
lady done. Even added by saying:
“Your
lady stole all my rearing-mother food including my own food” She stopped for a
while and continued with: “Unfortunately people amplified rumors that you are
not taking good care of the young lady, this is the reason she always stealing
people’s food, I can’t fail to remember you this vital issue, I must tell you just
to find out possible solution”
Step-mother
was very angry of the bad news; her anger forced her to beat young lady to
death. This regrettable story of what Gossiping goat coursed cycled all over
the village, the fateful story that caused the death of the young lady
prejudiced everyone heated animals.
Rearing-mother
was very angry too, she is very mad of the attitude of the gossiping goat. For
that reason she hided very razor-sharp knife and awaken in the middle of the
night and slaughtered the gossiping goat. In the morning she took the goat’s
dead body and hanged it in the heart of the jungle. Most of the people in the
village emulated rearing-mother and did the same thing to their animals; they
are worried of how animals spoke anyhow.
Any
animal that saw other animal’s dead body hanged in the bush, it hurriedly run
away and went to lion kingdom. They gathered there for a while, at last king
lion advised all the animals to remove their voices and burry it, everyone
agreed, the entire animals removed their voices, dogged very big grave and
buried their voices just to have faith with human being. From that time animals
stopped speaking but they all her every sounds in the world.
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