{"collection":"African","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/afr/yl/yl37.htm","path":"afr/yl/yl37.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/afr/yl/yl37.htm","text":"Sacred-Texts African Index Previous Next\nTORTOISE was always fond of making mischief between harmless people. One day as he walked along the river-bank he came upon the Elephant and said to him:\n\u201cThe Hippo is boasting that you are only a weakling, and that you have not strength to pull a log out of the river.\u201d\n\u201cThat is false!\u201d cried the Elephant, and to prove his strength he allowed Tortoise to tie a strong rope to his trunk and attach the other end to a log in the river.\nTortoise went clown to the water holding the rope, and said to Hippo:\n\u201cThe Elephant is boasting of his p. 72 strength, and he declares that you are a weakling and could not pull down a tree.\u201d\n\u201cThat is false!\u201d cried the Hippo. \u201cI can pull down any tree.\u201d\nTortoise then said that he had attached his rope to a tree, and would fasten the other end to Hippo\u2019s horn. This he did, and the two animals began to pull, one on each end of the rope. Elephant pulled and pulled, and the Hippo pulled and pulled, and neither gave way.\nAfter some time Hippo rested, and Elephant came down to the water to quench his thirst, and then they saw the trick that had been played on them.\nSnorting with anger, they began to look for the mischievous Tortoise, but by this time he was, you may be sure, very far away.","title":"XXXIV ERIN AND ERINOMI (THE LAND- AND WATER-ELEPHANTS)","type":"page"}