Running from a hunter, a marsh-pig fell into the river. The hunter went into the river after it; then a crocodile grabbed him.
The hunter's dogs howled!
The crocodile took the hunter, still alive, to his cave hollowed out in the riverbank, leaving him there.
The dogs smelled him underground, and they dug. For three days and nights the dogs kept digging until they broke through into the cave. "You saved me!" the hunter shouted.
When he go thome, he found the people conducting his funeral.
"I'm alive!" he shouted. "My dogs saved me."
Everyone rejoiced and praised the dogs.
Inspired by: "Taming Dogs" in Africana by Duff Macdonald, 1882. Macdonald collected these stories from the Yao people at the Blantyre Mission in Malawi.
Notes: You can read the original story online. Compare the story of the woman abducted by the crocodile: The Woman and the Crocodile.
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