Pauper, Brawler and Slanderer by Tutuola Amos

Author:Tutuola, Amos [Tutuola, Amos]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571311378
Google: itrGAwAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0571147658
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 1987-04-15T04:00:00+00:00

17

PAUPER AND SLANDERER

GO AND FARM IN

ARAROMI TOWN

As soon as Slanderer and Pauper had bought their farm implements, they went direct to Araromi town where there were very rich lands.

Having got to the town, they were fortunate indeed. They found the fertile lands on the north and south parts of this town. But the lands on the east and west were barren entirely.

Of course, the lands to the north and south were deep and uncultivated since the beginning of the earth. Mighty trees were here and there in them and litters of decayed leaves filled up the ground.

So Pauper chose the rich land of the north. But the first important thing which he did was that he built one farmhouse near the rich forest. He was living in that house instead of living in the vicinity of the famous Araromi town as Slanderer did.

But as Pauper was as strong as a buffalo, he cleared the land without any problem. After, he made the heaps ready for the imminent rains of the year, so that he might plant maize and other kinds of crops with the first rain.

But as ‘a lazy man chooses easy work to do’, so Slanderer went to the east. He made his farm on the barren land instead of making it on the lands of the north or south, because he was too lazy to do hard work like Pauper. Then he made heaps on the barren land easily for there were no trees or any refuse.

When both friends had made their farms ready for the imminent rains, they started to pay visits to each other regularly, even if the north where Pauper made his farm was a bit far from the east.

It was not so long before the first rain of the year rained. But then Pauper planted his maize and the other kinds of crops on his rich land, while Slanderer planted his own on his barren land of the east.

Within three weeks that the rains had started to rain continuously, Pauper’s maize shot out and thrived so well that each stalk was thick and the ears were growing very beautifully. And after less than two months, it was nearing its maturity.

But Slanderer’s maize was not good at all. The stalks were yellow because he planted it on the barren land.

One day. Slanderer accompanied Pauper to his maize farm. But it was a great sorrow to him when he saw how well Pauper’s maize thrived. He saw as well how each stalk was thick and the ears were green and the corn-cobs on each of the stalks were very robust.

But as ‘a barren woman is jealous of a woman who has children and a lazy man is jealous of a hard-working man’, so from the day that Slanderer had seen how well Pauper’s maize had thrived, he started to behave to him Hke a friend and like an enemy. Slanderer had forgotten that Pauper had toiled hard before he made his farm on that rich land.

However, Slanderer returned to his house in the vicinity of Araromi town.

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