Ananse's Shape-Shifting Feast: How He Fooled Lion Twice

After Ananse left Lion tied to a tree,

a woman found Lion and freed him.

Grateful Lion invited her to a feast.

Ananse wanted to go too.

"Take me with you!"

he said, and he turned himself into a baby.

The woman brought the baby to Lion's house,

and the baby ate more than anybody else.

Lion got suspicious, so he followed the woman,

but Ananse turned himself into an old man.

"Which way did the woman and her baby go?"

Lion asked the old man.

"That way!" said Ananse, pointing the wrong way.

Lion ran off, and Ananse laughed.