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Rh Then he looked into his bag to see his fish, and it was the head of a guinea fowl.

He went on the road home and took the bag with him, with the head of the guinea fowl in it.

By and bye he met his brothers.

They said, "Have you seen our goat? It was grazing, and now we cannot find it."

He said, "No, I have been fishing all day, and I only caught one fish, and now it has turned into the head of a guinea fowl."

They said, "Let us see," and they looked in, and it was the head of a goat.

They said, "You are a liar, you have killed our goat and this is its head."

They were very angry, and they took him back to the village, and said to the mother, "Our goat was grazing close to where he was fishing and he killed it; the head is in this sack."

She said, "I want to see it."

They opened the sack and showed what was in it. It was the head of his father.

Then all went away and left him all alone in that place.

He never saw his father again.

Long ago all the animals had no tails. They all met together, and said, "How shall we get tails?" One of them said, "Over there, far off, there lives a Koodoo; he can tell us." The Elephant said, "I will go and ask him." So he went to the Koodoo's home singing: