So the gennet sat down and waited, and presently a guinea fowl came along and asked the man what he was doing. The man said, "I am looking for honey. If you want any, sit down by the gennet and wait for it."
After that the man went on cutting the tree, and at last made a hole and looked in, and he found that there was no honey in the nest.
All those sitting round asked him, "When are you going to give us our honey?"
The man said, "There is no honey in this nest, but there is no need for you to go hungry. If you are fools it is your own faults."
Then that hunter turned and killed the buffalo, and the lion seized the eland, and the leopard caught the bushbuck, and the gennet got the chicken.
So they were very glad, and said to that man, "You have done very wisely to-day."
