Show an all amaded african there is nothing which causes so much wonder in fit the mind of thesa the aai at age as the arts of reading and writing and many tales are told of his h is inability to understand how talking paper works an african unlined mungo was once sent by one missionary to another witha with 1 present of cocoanuts cocoa nuts As it NN w as a liot hot lay day an anil 1 helas he thirsty hente lie ante two of them bythe by the way when lie handel handed over the others to the missionary wh chatas atas liis his astonishment astonish to hear the latter remark after reading the lie note dole that accompanied the present how carelas sly you must have carried tile bit busket twenty nuts were sent and here are uly only eighteen As the missionary did not make much of it did not enter into particulars particular but lie was greatly puzzled it was evident that the note had given the informs tion tor for as soon as lie hu readia reid it the missionary counted the nuts and bo the perplexed Mc messenger menger concluded that tile thu paper had been watching him all tho the time that lie committed the theft shortly after lie was sent ag again tin enit en a similar errand but on this oca occiL ision sion lie liebis is determined terni ter mined hied to circumvent the fetish paper 11 and to bo before helping himself to to tile three dire e fine cue fleshy nuts of NN aich lie h made a nicil 11 on the roid road lie he lid hid the telltale letter tinder it a stone and retired to some distance from it having fluis lied his replat lie wen went back for the note and with will confidence the house li oue A all I 1 the nuts here dis ats yero yere time massa ma lies he said tild jauntily jiun tily except the three you ate coming alonz along 11 answered the missionary atter after the note Mu jungok ngot amazement was now beyond 1 the power of words to describe and front from that day forward be might hive have been t trusted t with 1 1 11 uncounted 11 coll LACA co dowries cowries cow rl ries es i if f 0 only ril v a edif 11 scrap C of fetish t piner paper seat hunt alo alon with them |