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Title
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African Aesop, Containing The Little Wise One and Kalulu the Hare
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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Signed by the author, 1942 reprinting
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Written and illustrated by Frank Worthington
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Creator
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Worthington, Frank
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Contributor
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Written and illustrated by Frank Worthington
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:02:16Z
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2000-02
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1942
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:02:16Z
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Date Issued
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1939
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Abstract
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The Little Wise One and Kalulu the Hare are volumes of, respectively, twenty and twelve fables each that are bound together here. Worthington's little accompanying illustrations are, I believe, especially delightful for the exhaled cries that one can see emerging from animals' mouths as though shot from cannons. The book is signed by Worthington in 1948. It was originally sold by Preece & MacKenzie in Bulawayo. This book has traveled! Despite the book's title, these are stories more in the tradition of Uncle Remus than of Aesop. They are delightful tales of wit, with the hare usually playing the role of the clever trickster. Let me give a short account of the first six. TH involves five different tortoises at different landmarks along the way. In the second tale, hare secretly puts lion's tail into a hole and tamps it fast while he seems to be cleaning it of fleas. In the next, baboons trick hare by taking him to a beer pot, but it is up in the tree and he cannot reach it. So he puts a beer pot in the middle of a field he has burned out--and then insists that the baboons can lift up the beer pot only if they have clean hands. In the fourth, buffalo makes hare carry blankets on a trip to see lion, his chief, and pays no attention to his pleading that they are too heavy. So hare puts bees into the blankets, shuts the door on buffalo's hut, props it closed, and leaves. In the fifth, lion instructs a man to let his dogs eat the captured antelope, and then he should eat the dogs, and the lion will eat the man. A hare says yes and mentions that then he will eat the lion! He finally gets the lion mad enough to come after him--which gives the man a chance to escape with the dogs and the antelope, since he does not want to follow the lion's pyramid scheme. In the last, hare entices others to get revenge on those who would not help hare when he needed to get across the river because of a dangerous fire. Hare often lures one of his enemies into attacking another. These are enjoyable stories, even though they are not fables in the strictest sense.
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Identifier
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3997 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Wm. Collins and Co.
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London/Glasgow
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Subject
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GR350.W67 1939
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole