A very long time ago, while the world
was young and animals walked on two
feet, and spoke like men, there lived
two friends. Ijapa, (the tortoise) and
Igbin (the snail) They did almost
everything together. Ate together,
bought clothes together, they were as
close as brothers could be. However,
the friends were quite different. While
Igbin was patient and easy-going, Ijapa
was cunning and extremely greedy.


One day, while cooling off under a
mango tree, they decided to embark on a joint enterprise, something to profit them one way or another. Each friend had saved a considerable amount of money so they pooled resources and thought of what to purchase.

After much thought, they settled on
purchasing “ pakute” a locally crafted
steel trap. So they went off to the
evening market to buy one...

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