Why Do You
Not Make It With Something Finer?" And He Went Into The Bush And
Took Offerings To The Spider And Said:
"Oh, my lord, teach me more
things!" And he sat and watched the spider, but the spider only
went on making stuff out of his belly.
And the man said: "Oh, my
lord, you pass me. I cannot do this thing." And as he went home he
thought and saw that there are trees, and there are bush ropes,
thick bush rope and thin bush rope, and then there is grass which
was thinner still, and he took the grass, and tried to make a net
with it, and did this thing and made more nets and every net he made
was better. And his wife was pleased and said "This is good cloth."
And the man lived to be very old and was a great chief and a great
hunter. For it is good for a man to be a great hunter, and it is
good for a man to please women. This is the origin of the cloth
loom.
It was in the old time, and men have got now thread on spools from
the white man, for the white man is a great spider; but this is how
the black man learnt to make cloth.
NOTES.
{14} Sierra Leone has been known since the voyage of Hanno of
Carthage in the sixth century B.C., but it has not got into general
literature to any great extent since Pliny.
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