Ananse's Pork Plot: How the Spider Tricked His Wife with a Doctor's Disguise

Ananse's wife raised a pig.

"Let's eat your pig!" Ananse said.

"No!" she said. "I'm going to sell it."

Then Ananse pretended to be sick.

"Fetch the doctor," he groaned.

Right after she left,

Ananse dressed up as the doctor

and ran to meet her on the road.

"I'm too busy for house-calls,"

he said, "but pork stew is good medicine."

Ananse's wife headed home,

and Ananse ran to get there first.

"Doctor says you must eat pork stew,"

Ananse's wife said.

"I'm too sick to eat..."

Ananse moaned.

"You must eat pork stew,"

she replied. "Doctor's orders!"

Ananse smiled.