Atondido Stories
house with the roof of dried grass.
The stag thought that the tiger was about to spring upon him
and kill him. He, too, made a leap for the door and ran and ran
until he was far, far away from the house with the roof of dried
grass. The tiger and the stag are still running away from each
other until this very day.
The house with the roof of dried grass waited and waited
there in the place which was neither too high nor too low, too
near the river nor too far away, not under too thick trees nor out
in the hot sun. It waited and waited until it go so tired it fell
down in a heap.
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