The tortoise and the old woman

[Nneoma]

Once there was a famine in the animal kingdom and the tortoisebecam so hungry he knew he had to do something about it.He decided to visit the land of the humans and when he got there he saw an old woman carrying a heavy basket and he helped her to carry it to her hut.In appreciation,the woman offered him dinner and he gladly accepted.While they were eating he told the woman that he had travelled far and wide and had even heared trees sing.The woman found his tales funny but unbelievable and so when tortoise announced his departure she was glad to be rid of him.
The next day after preparing dinner the old woan heared the trees outside her house singing and alarmed,she ran away only for the tortoise to emerge from the trees to eat her food.This continued until the woman took the advise of amedicine-man and made a foo-foo man in front of her house so that next time the tortoise came he got gummed on the adhesive foo-fooman and so the old woman caught him."You are wicked" she screamed and pounced on him,he got the beating of his life that day.