{"collection":"African","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/afr/jas/jas048.htm","path":"afr/jas/jas048.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/afr/jas/jas048.htm","text":"Moses Hendricks, Mandeville.\nAnansi and Dog were friends. They wanted to go into cultivation, so both of them went out in search of good lands to rent. They came across a nice bit of land. Anansi fell in love with the spot; Dog fell in love with the spot too. Anansi said to Dog he remembered when he was a little boy his father planted yams on that very spot of land,--\"An' the yams did bear.\" Dog said, \"How they bear big?\" Anansi said, \"Brar Dog, they bear big, they bear big like me leg!\" (Anansi's leg is jus' like a thread!) Brar Dog say, \"Before I work an' plant yam, an' the yam not bigger than you. leg, I sooner walk round an' look!\" That's the reason why, when you're eating, a dog 'sure to be looking at you.","title":"48. Why Dog is always Looking.","type":"page"}