"Let's kill Tiger's children!" Anansi said to Rat. "Then we can carry them away in our baskets."
Rat killed two Tiger children.
Anansi took two Tiger children but only pretended to kill them.
Then Tiger came. "Where are my children?" he roared.
"Your children are in our baskets!" said Anansi.
Anansi gave him the live children, and then Rat had to give him the dead children.
Tiger roared and chased Rat.
"Go in your hole!" shouted Anansi, and Rat hid in his hole.
Then Tiger chased Anansi, and he hid in the trash-heap.
Rat and Anansi still hide there now.
Inspired by: Jamaica Anansi Stories by Martha Warren Beckwith
Notes: This is story 13b in the book. Beckwith heard this story from Moses Hendricks; additional information in Beckwith's notes.
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