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Main > Nigerian folktales > Fairy tale "The Story of the Leopard, the Tortoise, and the Bush Rat"
The Story of the Leopard, the Tortoise, and the Bush Rat
Ever since then the bush rats have had white spots on their skins, which represent the marks of the leopard's claws.
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In a village there lived two men who had the self-same name. Both were named Claus. But one of them owned four horses, and the other owned only one horse; so to distinguish between them people called the man who had four horses Big Claus, and the man who had only one horse Little Claus. Now I'll tell you what happened to these two, for this is a true story.
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