{"collection":"African","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/afr/saft/sft42.htm","path":"afr/saft/sft42.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/afr/saft/sft42.htm","text":"South-African Folk-Tales, by James A. Hone\u00ff, [1910]\nThe wild animals, it is said, were once assembled at Lion's. When Lion was asleep, Jackal persuaded Little Fox to twist a rope of ostrich sinews, in order to play Lion a trick. They took ostrich sinews, twisted them, and fastened the rope to Lion's tail, and the other end of the rope they tied to a shrub. When Lion awoke, and saw that he was tied up, he became angry, and called the animals together. When they had assembled, Lion said (using this form of conjuration)--\n\"What child of his mother and father's love,\n Whose mother and father's love has tied me? \"\nThen answered the animal to whom the question was first put--\nI, child of my mother and father's love,\n I, mother and father's love, I have not done it.\nAll answered the same; but when he asked Little Fox, Little Fox said--\nI, child of my mother and father's love,\n I, mother and father's love, have tied thee!\nThen Lion tore the rope made of sinews, and ran after Little Fox. But Jackal said:\n\"My boy, thou son of lean Mrs. Fox, thou wilt never be caught.\"\nTruly Lion was thus beaten in running by Little Fox.","title":"South-African Folk-Tales: Lion's Defeat","type":"page"}