Ethiopian Folktales

Narrator Unknown

One day a fox saw a beautiful hen and the fox wanted to take out the hen from where she lives to his own house. In the evening he puts the hen in a sack. When he travels to his house in the meantime he goes to sleep.

When he sleeps the hen gets out and puts a stone in the sack and runs away home. When the fox wakes up he continues his journey carrying a stone in the sack. When he arrives home, there is only a stone in the sack. Before he opens the sack he boils water, goes to the sack, but there was only a stone. He is angry.