Extra Credit Reading Notes: Leopard Story

Tasks Done for a Wife

  • Remembers the story of his brother, cousin - some relative
  • Seeking marriage - dowry paid by a suiter for my daughter
  • First Elephant - failed
  • Gorilla - came back "disgusted"
  • Hippopotamus - thought he would succeed because of his size and strength
  • Everyone failed - only Leopard and Tortoise left
    • both believed in themselves despite the failure of others
  • Gold diggers!
  • Leopard went first
    • failed
    • audience still doesn't know what the tasks are
  • Tortoise tried them and did them all
    1. cracked calabash filled with water
      1. mended it with the gum of the Okume (mahogany tree)
    2. pick fruits from the top (slippery, soapy trunk - couldn't climb it)
      1. dug up the tree - didn't cut it down technically
    3. Did three more tasks set my the merchant's assistants
    4. Now he can marry the daughter!
  • Leopard (Njega) sees that Ekaga has been gone for 5 days - wonders if the task has been completed
    • "If Ekaga succeeds in getting that wife, I will take her from him by force"
  • Merchant gave son-in-law: slaves, goats and other goods
    • Ekaga swallowed all of the things to hide them
  • Tortoise and Leopard crossed paths - greeted each other
    • didn't marry - ate some mushrooms
    • vomiting to show he ate mushrooms
      • then box of goods - table - furniture - slaves - wife
      • Leopard takes these things from Tortoise

  • Story takes a turn - probs won't use this 
    • Great Goat where they get their meat
    • Tortoise shows Leopard, who is greedy and cuts the heart
    • Tortoise blames Leopard and Leopard ends up dying. 



Bibliography: Tasks Done for a Wife (Robert Hamill Nassau, 1914).

Image information: I See You (photo by Gerard Mendis)

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