The guns threaten,
Yet you seek food from me.
My children,
Do I get anything easily?
Once upon a time a Jackal, who lived on the borders of the colony, saw a waggon returning from the seaside laden with fish. He tried to get into the waggon from behind, but he could not; he then ran on before, and lay in the road as if dead. The waggon came up to him, and the leader cried to the driver, “Here is a fine kaross for your wife!” [[49]]
“Throw it into the waggon,” said the driver, and the Jackal was thrown in.
The waggon travelled on through a moonlight night, and all the while the Jackal was throwing the fish out into the road; he then jumped out himself, and secured a great prize. But a stupid old Hyena coming by, ate more than her share, for which the Jackal owed her a grudge; so he said to her, “You can get plenty of fish, too, if you lie in the way of a waggon as I did, and keep quite still whatever happens.”
“So!” mumbled the Hyena.
Accordingly, when the next waggon came from the sea, the Hyena stretched herself out in the road.