"Not me!" said the donkey, who blamed the goat, who blamed the cat, who blamed the rooster.
Inspired by: "The Farmer and the Donkey" in Wisdom from the Nile by Ahmed Al-Shahi, Ahmed and F. C. T. Moore, 1978.
Notes: You can read the original story online. This is a Ja'aliyin story from the town of Shendi in the northern Sudan. In the original story, the farmer sets three people to guard the crops from the donkey, but since the story does not mention them again, I left them out. The story also includes a turtle-dove in the chain, but I didn't have room, so I left that animal out.
"Approach the well, all of you!" shouted the farmer. "God will make the criminal fall in."
"Cock-a-doodle-doo! God's justice be done!" The rooster didn't fall.
"Meow! God's justice be done!" The cat didn't fall.
"Baaaaaah! God's justice be done!" The goat didn't fall.
"Hee-haw! God's justice..." but before the donkey could finish, he fell in.
"So he was guilty after all!" said the farmer. "God gave him what he deserved."
Inspired by: "The Farmer and the Donkey" in Wisdom from the Nile by Ahmed Al-Shahi, Ahmed and F. C. T. Moore, 1978.
Notes: You can read the original story online. This is a Ja'aliyin story from the town of Shendi in the northern Sudan. In the original story, the farmer sets three people to guard the crops from the donkey, but since the story does not mention them again, I left them out. The story also includes a turtle-dove in the chain, but I didn't have room, so I left that animal out.
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