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and his wife went into the jungle
to gather food. When they reached
a coconut tree, the man took out
his knife. The man climbed up the tree
to cut down some delicious coconuts.
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reached for a
coconut, a black
fly flitted around
his face. He tried
to swat the fly,
and dropped his
knife. “Watch out,
Wife!” he cried.
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way. As she jumped, she
kicked a crocodile that was
sleeping beneath the tree.
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went—swack! swack! swack!
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looking for bugs to eat. As
the crocodile’s tail came
down, the bird squawked—
scree! scree! scree!
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in a tree and landed right next
to a monkey. The monkey was
peeling a juicy mango.
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dropped his mango. It fell on the
head of a hippo—splat! splat! splat!
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attacked by hunters. He tried to
escape—stomp! stomp! stomp!
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on a bushfowl’s nest. The
nest was full of eggs.
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familiar call—kark! kark! kark! So the
sky remained dark for several days.
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bushfowl. She began to cry—sob! sob!
sob! And there she stayed, beside her
nest, for many days and nights.
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animals together to find
out what had happened.
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worried. They went to talk
to the wise lion.
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He said, “Wise Lion, I dropped
my knife because a black fly
was annoying me.”
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asked the lion. The fly ignored the
lion and continued saying “buzz!
Buzz! Buzz!”
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black fly’s fault!” said the lion. But the
black fly answered back. “Buzz! Buzz!
Buzz!” said the fly.
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say was, “Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!” To this day,
flies all around the world can only say,
“Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!”
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decided to punish him. “Black Fly!” he
bellowed. “Since you refuse to answer,
I shall take away your power to talk.”
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that had caused all the trouble had
been punished. And so she agreed
to once again call the sun to begin
the day.
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