African Folktale: Ananse's Breakfast Trick | West African Trickster Stories

Leopard fed Ananse a good breakfast.

"I'll feed you breakfast tomorrow!" Ananse told Leopard.

"Come when you hear dishes clattering."

Leopard waited and waited. There were no dishes clattering.

Finally Leopard came anyway.

"Too late!" said Ananse. "Breakfast is over."

"But the dishes didn't clatter!" shouted Leopard.

"Try again tomorrow," said Ananse.

"But when I say 'Eat eat eat!' you must say 'I don't want to eat!'"

So the next day Leopard came.

Ananse said, "Eat eat eat!" and Leopard said, "I don't want to eat!"

Ananse laughed and told him to go away.

That's how Ananse tricked Leopard twice.