The Black Monkey starts after Mr. Spider.
"Mawnin', w'en dey go nah prison, dey no see Spider inside. Spider he free, he done go home back.
"So nar Spider bring tief long tem nah de wuld. He bin begin tief, so now we all duh tief."
Another of Mamenah's neighbors came in just here, with an interesting bit of news, and story-telling was at an end for this evening.
Konah still sat curled up on the mat, with her woolly head bent low, and her mind far away in fancy-land. Finally she crept inside the hut to her hard mud cot, and soon was flying before a black spectre that in the guise of a monkey kept pursuing her. Again she travelled a path with heaps of feathers on one side, and piles of bones on the other. Finally she lost the power to move, and felt herself bound and carried away to prison, and then in helpless loneliness she sobbed aloud. In the midst of her distress a kindly voice spoke: "Look me, I yo' fren', I go he'p yo' come out prison," and Cunning Rabbit stood beside her. With that her heart gave a bound of joy and relief, the troubled dreams fled, and sound sleep held her until the light of a new day drove away all the spectres of the night.